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They are DYING FOR NOTHING, America!
Wake the FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Afghan, US troops kill 40 militants in east" by Rahim Faiez and Todd Pitman, Associated Press Writers | October 6, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan --American and Afghan troops swept through forested mountains in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 40 militant fighters in a hunt for insurgents responsible for one of the deadliest attacks of the war on U.S. troops, the Defense Ministry said.
Ten Afghan soldiers were also killed during the operations since Monday, most of them in Nuristan province's Kamdesh district, ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said.
The violence was part of a spate of attacks across the nation, including a roadside bomb strike on a NATO convoy in Sayed Abad district west of Kabul that wounded two foreign soldiers, said Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, an American media officer for NATO forces....
Remote Kamdesh, cut off from the rest of the region with no regular phone or radio contact and few roads, is where eight Americans and two Afghan security troopers died Saturday after hundreds of Taliban militants overwhelmed their thinly manned garrisons. Azimi said joint operations were continuing Tuesday in Kamdesh, and seven insurgents had been arrested there. Mathias, however, said there had "not been any significant engagement" in Kamdesh since Saturday.
Can't keep your OWN LIES STRAIGHT, huh, guys? Pfffft!
She said U.S. and Afghan forces were still in the remote area and had not pulled out. Mathias had no details on how insurgents carried out the attack or were able to inflict such heavy casualties.
Because she doesn't know!
We are BLIND OVER THERE, AmeriKa!!!
NATO said in a statement that 100 attackers were killed in Saturday's fighting.
A nice, round, figure for a body-count lie.
The alliance had previously said only that coalition forces inflicted "heavy casualties" while defending the outposts with artillery, airstrikes and helicopter gunships. The bloodshed was the heaviest U.S. loss of life in a single battle since July 2008, when nine American soldiers were killed by a raid on an outpost in the same province.
One year later, huh?
Kamdesh, about 20 miles from the Pakistani border and about 150 miles from Kabul, is known to be a haven for some al-Qaida fighters and militants loyal to Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose military chief, Kashmir Khan, has been unsuccessfully targeted by U.S. missiles over the past eight years....
Oh, here we go!
See U.S. Talking to Itself in Talks With Taliban, readers!
Yeah, he works for us!
Whatever happened to those talks, anyway?
Added from web, cut from printed paper:
In other violence Tuesday, a patrol came under small arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire in Logar province, southwest of Kabul, but there were no casualties, Mathias said. Logar police chief Gen. Mohammed Mustafa Mosseini said the attack sparked a gunbattle that led to the arrest of at least one militant.
In London, Britain's defense ministry said one British soldier died Monday after an explosion in southern Afghanistan. The soldier was on foot patrol near the Nad Ali district center in restive Helmand province. AP Television News video from the site of the roadside bomb attack that left two NATO troops wounded in Sayed Abad district showed a damaged armored vehicle on its side near the road, with a blown-off wheel laying in a field as international forces secured the area....
And the CENSORSHIP continues. 'eh?
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