Nine NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

[tekisui]

Source: AP

KABUL — Nine NATO soldiers were killed in militant attacks and a helicopter crash in Afghanistan Monday, the second deadliest day this year as US-led troops build an ambitious campaign against the Taliban.

Three Australian commandos and a US soldier were killed when their helicopter crashed in southern Kandahar province -- the single worst loss of life for the Australian military in the nearly nine-year Afghan war.

Another two NATO troops, including an American, died in separate bomb explosions elsewhere in the south, the powerbase of the Taliban militia that is fighting an increasingly deadly insurgency against Western troops.

Three more American soldiers were killed in other militant attacks, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told AFP.

One US soldier died following a small-arms attack in the south and the two others died after a roadside bomb attack in the east.

On top of the deadly day, London announced that 300 British troops had now died in Afghanistan after a soldier died from wounds suffered in an explosion earlier this month in the southern province of Helmand.

The incidents brought to 64 the number of NATO soldiers killed in the Afghan conflict this month, and to 284 the number so far this year, according to an AFP tally.

The deadliest month for the Western coalition was August last year, when 77 foreign soldiers were killed. Last year, 520 NATO troops died -- their deadliest annual total yet.

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[spanone]

1. war without end, amen.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. To be followed by the usual, "We just need more time, more money, and more troops."

Which our lapdog congress will "patriotically" give them without a blush.

[Oregone]

5. You mean, increase the amount of expensive and permanent targets?

Thatll show em.

[kenny blankenship]

3. "helicopter crash"

an increasingly less rare accident.

[howard112211]

4. beat me to it.

since when are they able to take down helicopters? :shrug:

[FightingIrish]

7. Since we showed them how to take down Soviet helicopters.

[tekisui]

8. Taliban take credit for NATO chopper hit

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- Taliban militants in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan shot down a NATO helicopter Monday, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban said.

A NATO helicopter went down in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, killing three Australians and one American, CNN reported Monday.

NATO, however, said there was no evidence of "enemy involvement" in the helicopter crash.

Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the attack on the NATO helicopter, Pakistani newspaper The Nation reports.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/06/21/Taliban-take-credit-for-NATO-chopper-hit/UPI-53101277144576/

[Soylent Brice]

6. .

K&R

[bvar22]

9. Isn't there a light at the end of the tunnel....

...OR something?
.
.
Oh Yes.
I forgot about the $Trillion of minerals for the Global Corporations.
Especially Lithium to store and power the new Alternative Fuels.

You know, I wouldn't mind as much if "they" would simply be more honest,
and the American People shared in the booty from plundering another nation.
But we DON"T.
We (The American Working Class) will supply the Blood and the Treasure to power this "war",
but the PROFITS will go to criminals at the TOP of the Global Corporations and their pawns who run our government.
It is a blatant insult to my intelligence to attempt to disguise this RAPE of another country as Spreading Democracy"....OR "Fighting Terrorism"...OR "Protecting America"...:puke:


Meet Hamid Karzai
or as Obama calls him, "The Government of Afghanistan".

He was appointed by Bush the Lesser to run Afghanistan.
He is one of the most despicable criminals in The World,
But NOW we like him so much
that our children fighting and dying in the deserts of Afghanistan to keep him in power.

Commanded in Chief
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/engelhardt


"And everyone has a share", shouted Milo as the American bombers began dropping bombs on their own base.