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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US-led Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed five Taliban subcommanders in recent weeks, including a bomb-maker and two behind the August 18 attack that left 10 French soldiers dead, they said. ...
Source: www.topix.com --- 37 days ago
A French Soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force arrives at their base after a patrol from the Shamali Plains, some 30 kms north of Kabul in August 2008. ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 23 days ago
Kabul - A US-led Coalition Soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Afghanistan while six Taliban militants, including a rebel commander, were killed in clashes with Afghan police and Coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials... ... Source: www.macleans.ca --- 34 days ago
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Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 51 days ago
KABUL (AFP) - A Soldier with the US-led Coalition died in a bomb blast in Afghanistan Friday and the Afghan defence ministry said five civilians and 25 militants were killed in clashes involving air strikes against the Taliban . ...
Source: www.kansascity.com --- 68 days ago
The U.S.-led Coalition says one of its soldiers has died of wounds sustained in a roadside bombing in western Afghanistan. ... Source: www.blog.newsweek.com --- 31 days ago
It used to be that the term "forgotten" was often applied to the war in Afghanistan, at least in comparison to the stream of news coming out of Iraq during the past few years. Now, as Iraq quiets, troop shifts to Afghanistan are planned for the near future, and the media once again devotes more column inches to that conflict, word comes of a new milestone: 2008 is the deadliest year for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. The Associated Press reports that two U.S. soldiers were killed today, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, bringing 2008's death toll to 113, passing the 111 U.S. soldiers killed there last year. At the same time, 33,000 U.S. troops are currently operating in Afghanistan; the most since 2001. As the two latest U.S. deaths are still recent, there are few details available : The NATO-led force said one Soldier was killed when insurgents attacked a compound. The separate U.S.-led Coalition said a second service member died in combat. No other details were released, but a Western military official told The Associated Press that both troops were American. Yesterday the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael G. Mullen, told congress that NATO forces are running out of time in Afghanistan and attention needs to be given to Pakistan's tribal areas along with the border. His testimony came as U.S. forces are openly conducting cross-border raids into Pakistan, which is drawing condemnati ... Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 31 days ago
Militants killed two U.S. soldiers eastern Afghanistan on the anniversary of 9/11, making 2008 the deadliest year yet for American forces in the country that sheltered al-Qaida while it plotted the terror attacks on New York and Washington. The NATO-led force said one Soldier was killed when insurgents attacked a compound. The separate U.S.-led Coalition said a second service member died in combat. No other details were released, but a Western military official told The Associated Press that both troops were American. Thursday's deaths brings to 113 the number of troops who have died in Afghanistan this year, surpassing last year's record toll of 111. Afghanistan was the launching pad for al-Qaida's terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. In response, U.S. forces invaded in October 2001 and drove the Taliban out of power in a matter of weeks. At a ceremony in Kabul commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks, Col. Cody Smith said the date is a reminder of the terror experienced by those killed in the U.S. attacks experienced. "That is what drives me, to fight for freedom all over the world because those people that died were in terror of seeing the fire, of seeing ... their lives being taken from them," Cody said. "We should fight, so that freedom reigns and terror does not." Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaida network, is believed to be in the lawless tribal belt on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Once derided as a ragtag insurgency af ... Source: clipmarks.com --- 30 days ago
clipped by: cptenaud Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com by: RockRichard Thu Sep 11 Afghanistan continues to spiral out of control : KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants attacking a compound in Afghanistan's east killed a U.S. Soldier on Thursday, making 2008 the deadliest year yet for American forces in the country that sheltered al-Qaida while the terror group plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. If you take a look at your calender, we aren't even half way through September yet. Meanwhile, the President is stiffing commanders in Afghanistan on the troops they have requested. Yeah, that's smart. The NATO-led force said one Soldier was killed when insurgents attacked a compound. The separate U.S.-led Coalition said a second service member died in combat. No other details were released, but a Western military official told The Associated Press that both troops were American. Tags: afghanistan ... Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 20 days ago
Security forces backed by helicopter gunships and artillery killed more than 60 insurgents in northwest Pakistan in offensives aimed at denying al-Qaida and Taliban militants safe havens, officials said Tuesday. The attacks come amid intense U.S. pressure on Pakistan to crack down on militants blamed for attacks both at home and on Coalition forces in neighboring Afghanistan. A truck bombing over the weekend at a luxury hotel in the capital Islamabad that killed 53 people underscored the threat extremists pose to the nuclear-armed nation. More than 50 of the alleged insurgents, along with one Soldier, died in clashes since Monday in the Kohat region, which borders Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal areas, army spokesman Maj. Murad Khan said. He said the military had retaken control of a key mountain tunnel from the insurgents. In the nearby Bajur tribal region, security forces killed at least 10 militants during an ongoing offensive there, government official Iqbal Khattak said. That operation, which began in early August, has won praise from U.S. officials worried about rising violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but has triggered retaliatory suicide bombings elsewhere in Pakistan. Some officials believe the weekend bombing of the Marriott Hotel may have been a response to the Bajur operations, which the army says has left more than 700 suspected militants dead. Washington says the operation in Bajur - a rumored hiding place of al ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 68 days ago
Kabul - A US-led Coalition Soldier and several Taliban militants were killed in a series of clashes and an explosion in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. The Soldier died of wounds he sustained during a roadside blast in the western region on... ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 53 days ago
Kabul - One Coalition Soldier and more than 20 Taliban militants, including foreign fighters, were killed in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. A Soldier of the US-led Coalition was killed by small arms' fire during a combat patrol on Wednesday a... ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 83 days ago
Kabul - A Soldier with the US-led Coalition forces died Monday after the vehicle he was travelling in was struck by a roadside bomb in Helmand province, officials said. A statement released at Bagram Airfield near Kabul said the incident had occurred... ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 71 days ago
Kabul - A roadside bomb struck a US-led Coalition military vehicle in eastern outskirts of capital Kabul on Sunday, killing one Soldier and wounding another, officials said. The blast occurred in Bagrami area of Kabul city, police official Ruhellah T... ...
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AFP - A Soldier from the US-led Coalition and two Afghan civilians were killed Saturday when a bomb hit their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, the Coalition said. ...
AFP - A Soldier with a US-lead military Coalition in Afghanistan to fight Taliban and other extremists has died two days after being injured in an explosion, the force said Wednesday. ...
AP - The U.S.-led Coalition says one of its soldiers has died of wounds sustained in a roadside bombing in western Afghanistan. ...
In which we amend, update, augment and/or elaborate on recent Stumper items. Obama's bid to capture this year's crucial body-surfer vote. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo) I. Re: " Chasing the Mythical 'Obamacan' Masses " (Aug. 13, 2008) and " More on the Mythical 'Obamacan' Masses " (Aug. 14, 2008) In the first of these posts, we sifted through recent polling data and concluded that "there's little statistical evidence to support the claim that the number of Republicans who favor this year's Democrat is substantially larger than the number of Republicans who favored his predecessors"--despite what many Obama fans, including his promiment Republican endorsers, seem to believe . In the second, we wondered whether people who identified as Republicans in 2004 are now identifying as Independents and voting for Obama--and found, sadly, that Obama and John McCain are tied among non-affiliated voters. So we're sticking by our claim that the 'Obamacan' masses have yet to materialize in any measurable way. That said, there's been a flood of fascinating findings over the last 48 hinting that the Illinois senator is finding friends in some strange--read, typically Republican--places. For instance, a new poll from the Barna Group, a Christian research firm, shows Obama leading McCain 43 percent to 34 percent among likely Christian voters, with advantages among non-evangelical born again Christians (43% to 31%); notional Christians (44% to 28%); peop ...
From the "how the hell did we miss this" department comes word that the U.S. military is hard at work creating "thought helmets" for its soldiers. If fully realized, this mind-interfacing piece of gear would allow for what plebeians would call magic, and Arthur C. Clark would call basic telepathy. The "good" news is the Army believes telepathic communication between soldiers in the field is entirely possible, some day. The bad news is that "some day" is decades away for this incredibly ambitious plan—this ain't no video game controller, folks. "Having a Soldier gain the ability to communicate without any overt movement would be invaluable both in the battlefield as well as in combat casualty care," the Army said in last year's contract solicitation, which was awarded last month to a Coalition of scientists and extraordinary gentlemen from the University of California at Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Maryland. "It would provide a revolutionary technology for silent communication and orientation that is inherently immune to external environmental sound and light." The system, in theory, would work thusly. First, it would "decode the activity in brain networks" so soldiers could radio commands to their squad simply by thinking of the message. In the system's early stages (and, again, we're talking theoretical here), the person on the other end of that thought transmission would hear a robotic voice speakin ...