Five US soldiers killed in Afghanistan attacks

[IndianaGreen]

Source: BBC News

Five US soldiers killed in Afghanistan attacks

Page last updated at 14:20 GMT, Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:20 UK

Five US soldiers have been killed in separate incidents of violence in Afghanistan, Nato has said.

Three died in east Afghanistan and two were killed in separate roadside bombings in the south. A sixth American died in an accidental explosion.

More than 350 Nato soldiers have been killed this year.

In other violence, gunmen killed 11 Pakistani Shia tribesmen in the east and one person was killed by a motorbike bomb in Kandahar.

Also on Saturday, hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in protest at increasing civilian deaths.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10586695.stm

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Earlier story from Thursday posted by bemildred:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4457603

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over

here but if we did we would not be bombing allied forces, wedding parties and other things that go boom in the night. Let's invite our former friends the Taliban and Mujahadeen to the backwoods of the smoky mountains for some real fun.

[tencats]

2. Updated to 6 US troops, 12 civilians killed in Afghan attacks

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD9GS91B00

By RAHIM FAIEZ (AP) – 1 hour ago

KABUL, Afghanistan — Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks Saturday in Afghanistan's volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as Taliban militants push back against stepped-up operations by international and Afghan forces.

NATO said four U.S. service members died in the east: One as a result of small-arms fire, another by a roadside bomb, a third during an insurgent attack and the last in an accidental explosion. Two other U.S. troops died in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan. Their deaths raised to 23 the number of American troops killed so far this month in the war.

Read more at linked news story.

[IndianaGreen]

3. I am sure that General Westmoreland...err... Petraeus, will lead us to victory

His campaign ribbons, our dead to bury!

[saigon68]

7. Seen this Before---- Betrayus has re-enlisted Saddam's Army

with the US dime. I wonder how he is going to PAY OFF the "resistance"?

[xchrom]

4. So this is going well.

Not.

[lebkuchen]

5. We're supposed to "win" something from this war

What do we win? Does it measure up to 1000 plus dead Americans, countless Afghan women and children, and billions spent while a large percentage of Americans have no health insurance, no home, and no job?

[frylock]

6. to be fair, president obama did state in his campaign that he would continue to allow our troops..

to be slaughtered in afghanistan.

[saigon68]

8. No he would never do that

The longer this goes on it--- is apparent he has NO CLUE to what he is doing.

[MissDeeds]

15. "... he would continue to allow our troops

to be slaughtered in Afghanistan." Well said, and sadly true.

:cry:

[saigon68]

9. 6 US Service Members Killed in Afghanistan

Source: VOA News

NATO says six American service members have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, on a day marked by violence across the country.

Four of the Americans died in separate incidents in the east involving small arms fire and an insurgent attack. The other two died in separate roadside

Read more: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/6-US-Service-Members-Killed-in-Afghanistan-98163454.html

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More useless Deaths for Obama's War on Terra

These people died for nothing

[BeatleBoot]

10. So sad.

I heard this on the radio while sitting at a red light today.

Tears.

:cry:

[saigon68]

13. Most of the People in this country don't want us there ONLY

The Thug Drug Lords and Karzai's bunch of thieves smugglers and Heroin Producers.

The farmers who grow the Poppies don't want us there either.

The "Contractors" at $2000.00 a day love their work guarding Thug Karzai and his band of crooks

[Goldstein1984]

11. These wars will end

When the children of the war mongers are forced to fight and die too.

[Nite Owl]

12. Those familiar headlines all over

again. The endless wars have to stop.

[democrank]

14. So sad.

~Rest in peace~

[saigon68]

16. `

[classysassy]

17. Bring back the draft

and end these wars of greed and hate.