They placed this information smack-dab in the center of this item:
"Gates warns Afghanistan critics; Defense secretary won’t set timeline for withdrawal" by Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press | September 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - A powerful member of President Hamid Karzai’s Cabinet threatened to quit after a suicide car bomb attack targeted him yesterday, killing five people, in the latest Taliban attempt to destabilize Afghanistan’s struggling government. Two Americans were among six NATO troop deaths elsewhere.
Shortly after the bombing in the western city of Herat, Energy Minister Ismail Khan railed against the dramatic rise in violence in Afghanistan, saying thousands of new refugees are seeking shelter in Herat because of militant attacks in outlying districts. Five civilians died in the failed assassination attempt, police said....
Gee, look what the Globe left out:
Two U.S. service members died Saturday in the country's south — one from a roadside bomb explosion and the other from an insurgent attack, the NATO-led force said Sunday. A British soldier died Sunday from a bomb explosion while patrolling in southern Afghanistan, Britain's Defense Ministry said.
Elsewhere, three French soldiers died in a violent storm in northeastern Afghanistan late Saturday. One soldier was struck by lightning, while two were swept away by a rain-swollen river during an operation in Kapisa province, said military spokesman Christophe Prazuck....
A common occurrence for ordinary Afghans during spring thaws in the mountains, but that remains unmentioned by the MSM.
An airstrike Saturday by international forces in Wardak province, bordering Kabul, killed three Afghan civilians, said Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman for the provincial governor....
Related: Censoring Afghanistan's Slaughter
More of a PATTERN every day, isn't it?
