Note the difference in focus in the web article pulled down yesterday as opposed to the printed paper the next day.
"5 NATO troops, Afghan official die as attacks rise" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press Writer | June 15, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan --Five NATO troops including one American died Tuesday, continuing a grim trend that could make June among the deadliest months of the nearly 9-year-old Afghan war.
Five Afghan policemen and a district governor were also killed Tuesday in separate fighting across the country, which has seen an uptick in attacks by insurgents in response to increased offensives by the international coalition.
Related: Kandahar Offensive Called Off
Boston Globe Censorship: Kandahar Offensive On!
Flip-Flop.
U.S. officials insisted the Afghan campaign is on track, although they concede that pacifying the insurgent-riddled south will take longer than expected.
Then it is NOT ON TRACK, is it?
Three of the NATO deaths were British -- two killed in separate gunfights in southern Helmand province and a third who died in a British hospital from injuries suffered in a firefight Sunday in Helmand, according to the British government.
The American service member was killed in a gunbattle in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said, and a Polish soldier died in a rocket attack on a base in the eastern province of Ghazni, the Polish military said....
The NATO-led force suffered a record 75 deaths in July 2009 as U.S. and British troops launched major operations in the Taliban's southern strongholds. The deadliest month for U.S. troops was last October when 59 Americans died, including seven soldiers killed in a single clash near Kandahar and seven who died in a helicopter crash in northwest Afghanistan not caused by hostile fire....
Also Tuesday, militants attacked a police checkpoint in eastern Ghazni province before dawn, killing five policemen and wounding one, according to the deputy provincial police chief, Nawroz Ali Nawroz.
Despite the rising bloodshed, U.S. officials claim that their counterinsurgency strategy is weakening the Taliban -- even in their southern strongholds.
"We are beginning to regain the initiative, and the insurgency is beginning to lose momentum," the undersecretary of defense for policy, Michele Flournoy, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday....
Isn't lying to Congress a crime?
I know people do it all the time, but....
Still, rising death tolls and uncertain progress in defeating the Taliban have deepened concern in Washington and other coalition capitals about the increasingly unpopular war.
Yeah, because the LIES NO LONGER WORK!!!!
The Dutch plan to pull their 1,600 troops from Afghanistan by August, and Canada, with about 2,800 soldiers, plans to end its combat role here next year....
U.S. commanders have also acknowledged that the southern campaign is proving more difficult than expected, especially around Kandahar City, the largest urban center in the south with about a half million people.
NATO had hoped to wrap up a campaign to bolster security in Kandahar city by the end of the summer. Now, commanders are saying the operation will run through the end of the year, in part because of public resistance to increased military activity.
Hey, WHO CARES about THOSE PEOPLE!?
They ONLY LIVE THERE and are the ones we are there to help, right?
What my newspaper gave me in print this morning:
"Afghan governor killed in car bomb attack" by Washington Post | June 16, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The governor of a southern Afghanistan district that has become a key focus of US military efforts to root out the Taliban was killed yesterday in a bombing, Afghan and US officials said.
Also yesterday, four NATO troops were killed in eastern and southern Afghanistan, raising the toll of one of the deadliest months for US-led international forces in the nine-year war....
FLIP-FLOP!
Authorities suspect the Taliban carried out the attack....
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AmeriKa's Trillion Dollar Trick in Afghanistan
I'm taking the footwear off.
Need to line them with a Boston Globe.
