Three ISAF soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Taliban attack

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KABUL, Aug 4 (KUNA) -- Three soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force have been killed and six others wounded in a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan, said a military press release issued late last night.

The attack was carried out in the same area of Kandahar province where a convoy of Canadian soldiers hit a landmine that injured three of them. The release said ISAF troops were working with Afghan forces to improve security along Highway 1 by disrupting Taliban activities and diminishing their influence on local civilians when the insurgents attacked from the area of a school. The three most seriously wounded soldiers were evacuated by helicopter to an ISAF medical facility in neighbouring Helmand province. Three others were evacuated by helicopter to the multi-national hospital at Kandahar airfield. All six soldiers are in good condition with non-life threatening injuries, said the release. "Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the fallen soldiers at this difficult time," said Brigadier General David Fraser, commander of ISAF Regional Command South. The same day, a suicide bomber killed 21 civilians when he blown up his explosive-packed car in a market in Panjwayee district of the same province. This was the deadliest attack since the one in March this year which killed 25 civilians. Earlier, the same day, on ISAF soldier was killed and another wounded in an explosion caused by an Improvised Explosive Device in the same region. (end) gk.

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[Oversea Visitor]

1. Keep staying Keep dying

Many fools in this world
Oh well the road to hell is often paved with good intention.

Dear oh dear all feel guilty so must help Agfhan cause all rush to help break it.
Now broken toy haha OBL not important no more
But whee was important when need bomb Afghanistan to pieces.

My my how time reveal truth.
No proof to say OBL guilty as stated by FBI
Why just declare OBL not important any more and hey all problems solve.

Gee people still dying there
Whee get Nato fix it

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Jeeze, Afghanistan is worse than Iraq this month.

I wonder how long it will be before it becomes a Soviet style occupation.

[daleo]

3. For the record, I think they were all Canadians

I have a theory that most people in Afghanistan accepted western troops for a while because of the WTC attacks. They figured "fair is fair, Bin Laden killed a lot of them, so they will come in and kill a lot of us to even the score". But now they figure the blood debt is paid, and they want the western troops out. But western troops hate to leave an area they have occupied, and we no longer understand the concept of a simple punitive action. This hell will go on until they finally drive us out.

[gratuitous]

4. Is anybody counting the dead in Afghanistan anymore?

I know that all these clusterfucks start to run together in people's minds, but I get the feeling that nobody's even counting the deaths in Afghanistan anymore.