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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 06, 2013, 03:39:39 pm
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6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks
Published April 06, 2013
| Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said.
In the south, three U.S. service members, two U.S. civilians and the doctor were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives just as a convoy with the international military coalition drove past another convoy of vehicles carrying the governor of Zabul province.
Another American civilian was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement.
The attacks occurred the same day that U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Afghanistan for a visit aimed at assessing the level of training that American troops can provide to Afghan security forces after international combat forces complete their withdrawal at the end of 2014.
Those killed in Zabul province included three members of the military and two U.S. civilians, including at least one employee with the U.S. State Department, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement. Several other Americans and Afghans, possibly as many as nine, were wounded, the official said.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul confirmed that Americans were involved in an attack in Qalat, the capital of Zabul province. Zabul is next to Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, and shares a volatile border with Pakistan.
"There are American and Afghan casualties. We are still investigating the incident and cannot confirm details at this time," the embassy said in a statement.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks.
The deaths bring the number of foreign military forces killed this year to 30, including 22 Americans. A total of six foreign civilians have died in Afghanistan so far this year, according to an Associated Press count.
It was unclear if the car bomber was targeting the coalition convoy or that of Provincial Gov. Mohammad Ashraf Nasery, who was driving to an event at a nearby school in Qalat. The explosion occurred in front of a hospital.
Nasery, who survived the attack, said the car bomb exploded as his convoy was passing the hospital. He said a doctor was killed, and two of his bodyguards and a student from the school were wounded. The coalition convoy was leaving a base that is home to a provincial reconstruction team, or PRT, officials said.
"The governor's convoy was at the gate of the school," provincial police chief Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Rooghlawanay said. "At the same time the (coalition) convoy came out from the PRT and was passing by that place. The suicide bomber blew himself up between the two convoys."
Nasery said he thought his convoy was the intended target.
"I'm safe and healthy," he told The Associated Press in a telephone call. "The target was my vehicle, but I survived."
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More national treasure--our selfless warriors--destroyed by worthless vermin. Wish General James Mattis were there to say to whomever are our flag officers: "Be honorable, be courteous, but be prepared to kill everyone you meet".
God Bless Our Troops Everywhere.
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More to add to the Obama body count.
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One of the people killed here was doing exactly what one of our sons and his wife were doing last year.
As U.S. civilians.
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--Eisenhower let the Russians shed the blood, because he valued our troops' lives.
--Truman bombed Japan into submission, instead of another bloody fight to the kamikaze suicidal end with fanatics.
Today the generals have PhD degrees, in how to "win the hearts and minds" like dear Petreaus, hero to Bush2, Obama, et all............that is how to shed American life, lest our enemy feel poorly towards us.
I give Clinton some credit; he involved us in the Balkans from the skies, instead of wasting our lives on the ground, as we have done for the last 11+ years with the muslim hordes.
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One of the people killed here was doing exactly what one of our sons and his wife were doing last year.
As U.S. civilians.
Very brave of them to go to Afghanistan as civilians and do anything related to education.
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Very brave of them to go to Afghanistan as civilians and do anything related to education.
We raised brave children. :patriot:
(But I'm glad none of them is in a war zone any more......)
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"6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks"
Obama shoots an 87.
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"6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks"
Obama shoots an 87.
Not including mulligans, I'm sure.