NATO soldier wounded in ambush in Afghanistan dies
A British soldier died after being wounded in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, while U.S.-led coalition troops killed several militants near the capital, officials said Wednesday.
Militants also killed a district police chief in the eastern Nangarhar province Wednesday after striking his convoy with a roadside bomb, said Sayed Mohammad, a provincial official.
The militants attacked a British patrol in Kajaki district of Helmand province Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense said. The soldier was initially wounded and later died, and two other troops were injured, it said.
More than 2,600 people have died in insurgency-related violence this year in Afghanistan, according to an Associated Press tally of official figures.
Monthly death tolls of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan surpassed U.S. military deaths in Iraq in May and June.
The growing Taliban-led insurgency is primarily concentrated in the south and east, but significant fighting is occurring in the west and central parts of the country.
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Posted By: HDavidson @ 07/14/2008 1:32:46 AM
Comment: Yeah cause being angered over 4000+ dead Americans in a war fought for OIL, bush staying there when we ASKED to leave by the government, McCain wants war too, but not in Afghanistan, he thinks that a blanket store. McCain wants to bomb Iran...yeah we're "bellyaching" Why don't you use your "2nd amendment" hope your cowardly a$$ on a jet to the war zones, either one will do, and put up or SHUT UP!
Posted By: amendment2man @ 07/01/2008 11:09:34 AM
Comment: excellent 33 more gone to virgin paradise. lets keep obliging them qand sending them to martyhrdom. we are only making them happy.
Oh enough about iraq already. Thne surge worked, neighborhoods are coming back, the gov't is taking over security in some places....in other words there has been real PROGRESS made. we can't leave nomatter who says they are going to(obama flopped on that one already)so deal with it and quit bellyaching!
Posted By: Trooper101st @ 07/01/2008 8:20:07 AM
Comment: Bush&Co screwed up at Tora Bora by "outsourcing" the combat to Afghan warlords, most who wanted nothing to do with OBL. The 10th Mountain was in theatre, and not putting them in a blocking position was a disaster. Maybe some HVT's would have been caught, killed. Maybe alot of thier fighters never would have gotten into Pakistan. The 10th would have killed them. The catastrophic blunder was going into Iraq, which was NOT a threat, but was built up to be by neo-cons like Rumsfeld, Wolfowicz, Rove etc. Throw in an inept CIA Dir. and you have the formula for disaster. It was a LIE. It was about oil, contracts to big companies like KBR, Halliburton, and security firms like the ultra-competent but trigger happy Blackwater Operators, to the inept firms like Dyn. Corps who was tasked to train Iraqi police. We took our eyes off the REAL mission: Destroy AQ/T-ban, and deny them a base of operations. Now they have it better in Waziristan than they EVER did in A-stan. Sooner or later the decision will have to be made. Send a massive strike package across the Afghan border and annihilate the camps, compounds etc. An insurgency can only survive if it has "SAFE HAVENS". Obama, please do the right thing and let the military do thier job. Seems Dubya lost his nerve.