3 U.S.-led coalition members, 1 Afghan interpreter killed in roadside blast in Afghanistan

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

3 U.S.-led coalition members, 1 Afghan interpreter killed
in roadside blast in Afghanistan

Published: June 17, 2007

KABUL, Afghanistan: A roadside blast hit a U.S.-led coalition
vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving three
coalition members and their Afghan interpreter dead, a coalition
statement said.

The attack occurred in the southern province of Kandahar, the
coalition said.

It did not disclose the nationalities of the soldiers. The U.S.-
led coalition is comprised of special forces soldiers from several
nations, but most of the troops are American.


Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/17/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Blast.php

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Yesterday: Coalition soldier killed in S Afghanistan - Xinhua

[MrPrax]

1. No human shields this time...

NATO targets Afghan casualties

June 15, 2007

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Friday a review of its policies in Afghanistan had led to a fall in civilian casualties caused by its troops and blamed Taliban insurgents for using ordinary Afghans as human shields.

NATO defence ministers agreed its 40,000-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would do everything it could to stem casualties the West fears are sapping public support for the international presence in Afghanistan.

But they signalled no major change in military strategy, which has made extensive use of air power to get troops out of tight spots, and said the main change had been an effort to tighten coordination with other international and Afghan forces.

"NATO-ISAF doesn't indiscriminately kill people -- the Taliban does," NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said after a meeting of the 37 countries that contribute to the ISAF force.

SwissInfo

335 U.S. deaths in Afghanistan, region
Boston Globe

Afghani insurgents are using Afghanis to protect themselves from aerial bombing...yeah right...more failures and lies from governments we no longer control because there is a widespread belief that democratic control is a distant second to 'security'.

[stranger81]

2. I just got a call from a good friend telling me her baby brother

was one of the soldiers killed this morning in this attack. He was only 27.

She's obviously devastated, and feels terribly now that she'd talked to him less since he joined up -- she's strongly opposed to this war.