"Bombs kill 5 foreign troops, 5 Afghan soldiers" by Stephen Graham, Associated Press | June 22, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops and five government soldiers yesterday, part of a surge of violence that has made Afghanistan's battlefields deadlier for foreign forces than those in Iraq.
The US administration already has highlighted the Iraq-Afghan comparison to lobby its NATO allies, with limited success, to commit more forces to Afghanistan for a conflict likely to test the West's stomach for a long, grinding war.
Whose stomach is going to be tested? The troops who are shot at, right?
Yeah, if you are not for occupations of empire and the mass murder of innocents, you are week in the belly.
Pfffffft!
Violence continues unabated despite the more than 60,000 foreign troops in the country and fresh pledges of financial aid to President Hamid Karzai's struggling government.
Yeah, but we are winning, so....
Last year, more than 8,000 people were killed in insurgency-related attacks, the most since the 2001 US-led invasion, and violence has claimed more than 1,700 lives so far this year.
Then the violence is way down, no? WTF?
How can the situation be so bad then?
Marvin Weinbaum, a former State Department official and now an Afghanistan analyst at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, said rising casualties would sharpen the Afghanistan focus in the US presidential race.
MSM is doing that already with their SELECTIONS of what to cover!
Oh, I see, the RISING CASUALTIES are AMERICANS!
"What's being brought home is the nature of the conflict. It's in the true fashion of a guerrilla operation and we're not prepared for it," Weinbaum said.
We've had seven years!
Besides, Bush signed the war order a day before 9/11, so how could they not be ready?
Time to LEAVE, folks!
In yesterday deadliest attack, a roadside bomb hit a coalition convoy west of the main southern city of Kandahar, killing four troops and wounding two others.
Good thing they cleared out the Taliban earlier this week!
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Fanning, a coalition spokesman, said gunmen opened fire on the damaged vehicles and three Afghans also were hurt. He declined to release the nationality of the troops, who were involved in training Afghan forces.
To the east, a Polish soldier from the separate NATO-led force died when a bomb hit his patrol after midnight in Paktika province. Jacek Poplawski, a Polish military spokesman in Warsaw, said four other soldiers were wounded.
In separate events, attackers detonated bombs and opened fire on vehicles carrying Afghan troops in Zabul and Kunar provinces, killing five soldiers and wounding three.
A suspected Taliban rocket hit a hospital in the northeastern town of Asadabad close to the Pakistan border, killing one man and wounding another man and a woman, Reuters reported, quoting provincial Governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi.
He said the rocket appeared to have been fired from across the border inside Pakistan. Afghan officials often accuse Pakistan of aiding Taliban and Al Qaeda militants who launch cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, charges Pakistan denies.
Yesterday's attacks capped a bloody week....
Gee, good thing the U.S. tamped down that Taliban quick, huh, 'murkns?!
And thank God the MSM papers never lie, huh?
Glad the area has been cleared and people can return.
Sigh.
A total of 31 foreign troops have died this month, including four British soldiers, four American troops, and another member of the US-led coalition killed earlier this week, according to an Associated Press tally...."
That's why it is starting to get media play; gotta get the public back behind the mission.
Notice how Muslim deaths account for no attention from the Zionist-controlled Western presss, readers?
