NATO Says Kills 100 Fighters In Huge Afghan Battle

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO forces said Tuesday they had killed more that 100 fighters in a huge weekend battle in eastern Afghanistan in which eight Americans died, the deadliest firefight for U.S. troops in more than a year.

The revised enemy death toll gives an idea of the scale of the battle, one of the biggest of the eight-year-old war, in which hundreds of fighters armed with machine guns, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attempted to storm remote outposts.

"A more detailed battlefield assessment following the October 3 attack in Nuristan has determined that enemy forces suffered more than 100 dead during the well-coordinated defense, significantly higher losses than originally thought," NATO said in a statement.

The fighters launched their assault on two remote outposts in Nuristan province Saturday, triggering the 13-hour battle in a part of the country U.S. forces had already planned to abandon under a new strategy calling for a focus on population centres.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/06/world/international-us-afghanistan-battle.html?_r=1

[BobRossi]

1. 10,000 more to take their place.

Killing Afghans only recruits more Taliban.

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[Spinzonner]

3. During the Vietnam War they reported massive Viet Cong and NVA casualties

Remember who won ?

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, the all to familiar BODY COUNTS kept getting higher and higher ...

yet 'Charlie' still lived to fight another day.

Nope, you can't kill them all.

[yellowcanine]

5. I thought we officially did not "do" body counts. Shades of Nam.

Had the official body counts been accurate, the whole country would have been dead.

[14thColony]

6. In counter-insurgency campaigns

killing increasingly large numbers of insurgents generally means there are increasingly large numbers of insurgents being recruited. It's not a good sign.

[thewiseguy]

7. "Detailed battlefield assessments"

:eyes: :wtf:

What a bunch of nonsense. How the fuck would you even go by making assessments without having access to the bodies?