Seventh NATO Soldier in 24 Hours Killed in Afghanistan

[Flaneur]

Source: Agence-France Presse

Seventh NATO soldier in 24 hrs killed in Afghanistan
Posted 1 hour 29 minutes ago

A NATO solider was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the seventh to die in the country in less than 24 hours after a massive suicide bombing in Kabul.

ISAF said the soldier, whose nationality has not been released, was killed by an improvised explosive device, the weapon of choice for Taliban.

Taliban-led militants have stepped up assaults on the Afghan government and its Western backers as part of their nine-year insurgency against the regime and 130,000 US-led foreign troops in the country.

Tuesday was a bad day for NATO, with six soldiers - five Americans and one Canadian - killed in a devastating suicide bombing in the capital during morning rush hour. The attack, which was claimed by the Taliban, also killed 12 civilians and wounded 47 more, the government said.


Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/19/2903182.htm?section=world

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The poppy harvest is over. Get ready for a lot more of this.

[greencharlie]

1. in my short time here... I've learned that not many really care now that the CinC is a "D"... nt

[Soylent Brice]

2. you would be mistaken. n/t

[Soylent Brice]

3. poppy harvest over = back to "normal"

K&R

[Robb]

4. How many Taliban bombmakes and soldiers do you really think harvest poppy?

[Soylent Brice]

6. probably just referring to something to do with this:

Afghanistan produces the raw opium used to make 90 percent of the world's heroin, and the Taliban earn about $300 million per year off the trade, according to the United Nations.

Kandahar itself produced about 16 percent of Afghanistan's opium poppies in 2009, the second-largest amount after neighboring Helmand province. The key districts in Kandahar for poppy are Zhari, Panjwai and Maiwand.

"I really underestimated how much the poppy harvest would impact the Taliban's operations out here," said Capt. Ryan Sheeran, the company commander whose First Platoon is currently based at Ghundy Ghar but also operates in Maiwand. "Taliban operations literally went down to nothing."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnUfMIsVX6q1P_9Uc8G0BCpwmvlgD9FI32CG1

[KoKo]

5. He died with HONOR...keeping the World Safe from TERRAISTS!

As BUSH SAID: "We are fighting for our Freedoms." :eyes:

[BunkerHill24]

7. look at here:

'Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes estimated that the long-term costs - taking into account the costs of taking care of wounded soldiers and rebuilding the military - of the war in Iraq will ultimately cost three trillion dollars.

"I think we're repeating that and it's a history we're condemned to repeat," he said.

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Heck, the war in Afghanistan may completely overshadow money spent in Iraq.

[BunkerHill24]

8. Why NATO is still in Afghanistan is mind boggling

take your troops and GO HOME!

[daleo]

9. The Canadian soldier was a colonel

That's the highest ranking officer of the Canadian forces killed in Afghanistan.

[Joanne98]

10. They seem to have switched targets.

[David__77]

11. And no consolation to the families of babies killed by US-led forces there.

How many Afghan babies were snuffed out by the US? How many women? How many men? Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, grandmothers, grandfathers. Crimes... a very heavy blood debt indeed.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. But we're winning this so called "war no terror" - right?

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WRONG

I think we have INCREASED the dangers from terrorism.

The families and friends of the innocents killed, jailed, tortured and maimed will be seeking revenge for generations to come.

THE PAYBACK IS GONNA BE A BITCH!

for generations . . .

[New Dawn]

13. Kick for truth.