"Police: Pakistan clash kills at least 9"
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A militant ambush and subsequent shootout Saturday killed at least six security forces and three insurgents in Pakistan's northwest, police said.
Saturday's clash also came as Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Pakistan on a surprise, one-day trip. U.S. Embassy officials confirmed the visit but said they had no details on Mullen's itinerary.
The United States considers Pakistan's cooperation critical to success in its war on terrorism, but U.S. officials have voiced concern about the new Pakistani government's efforts to strike peace deals with some militant groups.
Meanwhile, the fate of a group of hostages held by Taliban fighters remained unclear hours after a militant-set deadline to start killing them passed. Details of Saturday's clash were also in flux.
Aslam Khan, a local police official in Hangu district, said a group of militants ambushed a Frontier Constabulary convoy in the Zargari area. The paramilitary forces returned fire.
He said six troops were killed along with three militants. But another police official in the area, Shaukat Ali, said at least nine security forces died as did four or five militants.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar said Friday that militants had captured 29 people, most of them security forces. Negotiations over the captives were reported to be continuing Saturday and the hostages' status remained unclear by the evening.
Afzal said the hostages were taken in the wake of a militant siege of a local police station earlier in the week. Officials said more than 100 militants surrounded the Doaba station to demand their associates be freed, and the siege ended after army troops appeared."
All this stuff my dam Zionist-controlled War Dailies kept from me.
Do I really have to say anything; they make my point for me everyday.
"24 Are Killed in Afghan Blast"
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a police patrol in southern Afghanistan on Sunday killing 24 people, while a two-day battle sparked by an insurgent attack killed at least 40 militants, officials said.
Elsewhere, Taliban militants executed two women in central Afghanistan late Saturday after accusing them of working as prostitutes on a U.S. base. The women, dressed in blue burqas, were shot and killed just outside Ghazni city in central Afghanistan, said Sayed Ismal, a spokesman for Ghazni's governor. He called the two ''innocent local people.''
Taliban fighters told Associated Press Television News the two women were executed for allegedly running a prostitution ring catering to U.S. soldiers and other foreign contractors at a U.S. base in Ghazni city. 1st Lt. Nathan Perry, a U.S. military spokesman, said he had not heard allegations ''anything close to that nature.''
I really don't know what to make of this Zionist bullshit anymore. It's always the same old shit -- trot out the oppression of women shit when you are demonizing someone.
If I really thought we cared, maybe I wouldn't be so skeptical of the lying U.S. military and AmeriKan MSM.
Then again, maybe not: Memory Hole: Must Read For Women
Meanwhile, at least 40 militants were killed following an attack on Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces in Helmand province, the coalition said in a statement. The militants attacked the combined forces near Sangin on Saturday from ''multiple concealed and fortified positions,'' the coalition said. Thirty ''enemy boats'' and several small bridges have been destroyed on the Helmand River during two days of fighting, it said.
In eastern Kunar province, fighting erupted when militants attacked a NATO security force outpost, the military alliance said in a statement. NATO accused militants of using civilian homes and a mosque for cover. It said there were casualties on both side, but it did not provide any figures."
More innocent people slaughtered on the basis of a damnable lie!
But we are making progress, our mass-murdering liar-and-thief tells us.
"9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Attack in Afghanistan"
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 13 — Taliban insurgents mounted a large-scale attack on an American forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Sunday, killing nine American soldiers in fierce fighting that continued through the day.
Mark Laity, a spokesman for NATO, confirmed that nine soldiers had been killed and 15 more wounded, but did not give their nationality. Separately, a senior American military official confirmed that the nine soldiers killed were Americans. Four Afghan soldiers also were wounded, Mr. Laity said.
The Taliban assault on the base was the deadliest single attack on the NATO security force in Afghanistan, known as ISAF, in several years. The American commander of ISAF, Gen. David D. McKiernan, said in an interview on Sunday afternoon that Taliban insurgents had mounted the attack and that fighting was continuing, but he did not give details on casualties.
Throughout the interview, General McKiernan repeatedly returned to the issue of the sanctuary that militants enjoy in the tribal areas of Pakistan, as a growing problem that is directly causing instability in Afghanistan.
Yeah, this is why "all of a sudden" the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, AmeriKan MSM has rediscovered Afghanistan after ignoring it for years!
The United States coalition also reported a heavy clash between Taliban insurgents and Afghan and American forces patrolling in Helmand province in the south. The report estimated that 40 militants were killed by air strikes as boats and bridges across the Helmand River were destroyed.
Translation: We are smashing what little infrastructure these poor people had left.
That ought to win their hearts and minds, 'eh?
