KABUL -With Western troop casualties at record levels as the war enters its ninth year, the NATO-led coalition yesterday disclosed the death of another of its soldiers a day earlier in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. The soldier’s nationality was not immediately released.
Meanwhile, Afghan officials said a joint operation by Western and Afghan troops had killed a senior militant commander in Herat Province, which borders Iran. They said the overnight raid left about 20 militants dead, including Ghulam Yahya Akbari, who served as the mayor of Herat before going over to the Taliban. He had been terrorizing the city for months with ambushes, abductions, and other attacks.
Of course, kicking down doors and dragging people away and throwing them into torture chambers isn't terrorism. Killing them in village raids isn't terrorim. Annihilating them with ungodly missile strikes and thousand-pound bombs is not terrorism. That's liberation. They are liberating you from your life!
Akbari’s defection to the insurgent side had been seen by many as a sign of rising frustration with the government of President Hamid Karzai, who is in the midst of a struggle over his August bid for reelection. The vote was tainted by allegations of fraud, and results of a recount, based on a statistical sampling of suspect ballots, are expected to be released in coming weeks.
Yeah, somehow THAT FRAUD didn't raise US hackles like.... oh, right, we helped rig this one, sorry. How much you want to bet they declare Karzai won over 50%?
Elsewhere in the country, a suicide bomber struck a road construction project in the eastern province of Paktia, killing five workers and injuring four people, provincial police said.
Halliburton contractors? KBR, Blackwater, Dyncorp, who, MSM?
Yeah, whatever, s*** MSM.
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