Also see: Censoring Afghanistan's Slaughter
See if you can find where they buried the civilian crop -- as well as our own, America.
"US-Afghan team kills 30 Taliban troops; Attack follows rebel ambushes on truckers" by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press | September 29, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - A US team working with Afghan soldiers swooped in on a militant stronghold in the country’s west, killing at least 30 Taliban fighters, US and Afghan officials said yesterday. Elsewhere, a Taliban highway ambush left six truckers dead, and a roadside bomb killed another six Afghans in a crowded van.
Related(?): "Al-CIA-Duh" Invades Afghanistan
Farah provincial Governor Roh ul-Amin said no air strikes were used during the battle. US General Stanley McChrystal has made protecting Afghan civilians a priority and sharply restricted the use of air strikes. Ul-Amin said 50 Taliban militants - but no coalition forces or civilians - died in the fighting, which he said began overnight and was ongoing.
Is this just a PR, BODY-COUNT STORY or what? A "we're winning" article?
Major James Brownlee, a US military spokesman, confirmed an operation but gave a lower death toll of 30 Taliban militants killed. He declined to comment further. On Sunday, Taliban militants ambushed a truck convoy in eastern Kunar province, killing six drivers and burning their vehicles, the Interior Ministry and provincial police said. A seventh truck driver was kidnapped in the attack near the Pakistan border. The trucks were loaded with construction materials bound for a military base, said General Khaliullah Zaiyi, Kunar’s police chief....
A rare supply line story; I guess its important when the Taliban torch a supply convoy constructing permanent military bases.
Also Sunday, a private van hit a roadside bomb in northern Faryab province, the ministry said in a separate statement. Six of the people inside were killed and seven others injured, the statement said.
In northern Kunduz province, which has seen a sharp rise in Taliban violence in recent weeks, the US military said an Afghan civilian was killed and another wounded at an American-Afghan checkpoint after the vehicle failed to stop. The military declined to offer further details.
Oh, a CHECKPOINT SHOOTING BURIED in the MIDDLE of the PIECE!
Afghanistan’s civilian toll has risen alongside that of US and international forces this summer. As the Taliban grip extends across ever greater territory, stretches of highway and road are falling into their hands. The planted bombs have become a major cause of deaths and injuries for both international troops and Afghan civilians. Some are remotely detonated, but many are simply placed on roads and triggered by a vehicle riding over the explosive.
Yeah, it is all the Taliban's fault; they only live there.
The UN report issued Saturday said August was the deadliest month of the year for civilians as the Taliban stepped up a campaign of violence to discourage voting in the Aug. 20 election. A total of 1,500 civilians died in Afghanistan from January through August, up from 1,145 for the same period of 2008, the UN report said.
Oh, the GLOB FINALLY FOUND the UN REPORT, huh?
The UN report said about three-quarters of the civilian deaths recorded this year were the work of militants. Coalition forces were responsible for the remaining deaths, most the result of air strikes.
That's what the UN says; I hold AmeriKa responsible for every single death and I see every single victim as innocent because WE INVADED and OCCUPIED over LIES!!!!!
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I didn't see any American dead in that one, did you?
