Attacks Kill 6 NATO Troops Around Afghanistan

[Flaneur]

Source: Associated Press

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Six NATO service members died Monday in separate attacks across Afghanistan, including a suicide car bomb that targeted an international military convey as it crossed a bridge in the Taliban-dominated south, the coalition said. Nine Afghan civilians also died in four bombings in the south, officials said.

The deaths came as American and Afghan forces worked to consolidate control over the former insurgent stronghold of Marjah in the southern province of Helmand, where allied forces are waging the largest combined offensive of the 8-year-old war.

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In western Afghanistan, two other NATO troops died in a mortar or rocket attack, a military statement said, while another service member was killed by small arms fire in the south. One service member was killed by a roadside bomb in the south and another by rocket or mortar fire in the east. The statements gave no other details.

Another car bomb Monday outside Kandahar city's police headquarters killed a civilian employee and wounded nine police officers and six civilians, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary. Another official had previously said a police officer was among the dead, but Bashary said he was an office worker, not an officer.

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Imperial war. Ain't it grand?

[scottsoperson]

1. general mccrystal says

we need to listen to the muslims.

[Oregone]

3. Got any better ideas?

[Oregone]

2. So are they not reporting if they are US Troops anymore?

Thats a big change. Second story in a short time that I remember using that language. Where were they from? Not the US? Or US? Why aren't they including nationality? Did they and I missed it?

Is this an effort to make it appear as if this isn't a US led war and occupation?

[Flaneur]

4. Here's what ISAF says about that:

2010-03-CA-005
For Immediate Release

KABUL, Afghanistan (March 1) - Two ISAF servicemembers were killed in an indirect fire attack in western Afghanistan today.

In another operation, an ISAF servicemember was killed in a small-arms attack in southern Afghanistan today.

It is ISAF policy to defer identification procedures for casualties to the relevant national authorities.