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US official: American casualties in Afghan military mission
Associated Press ^ | 2-08-2020 | Lolita C Baldor, contributor

Posted on 02/08/2020 1:10:07 PM PST by sockmonkey

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — American and Afghan military personnel were fired on while conducting an operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, the U.S. military said Saturday.

There were multiple American casualties, but the number and the extent of the injuries were not immediately known, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss information that has not been officially released.

U.S. military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett said in a statement that both Afghan and U.S. personnel were ’engaged by direct firing.”p>

(Excerpt) Read more at t.co ...


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US account conflicts with the initial account after incident.
1 posted on 02/08/2020 1:10:07 PM PST by sockmonkey
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Also, see here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Nangarhar&src=typeahead_click&f=live


2 posted on 02/08/2020 1:28:26 PM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: sockmonkey

Why are we still there? What is the mission? Is that mission obtainable? How will we know if it has been accomplished?


3 posted on 02/08/2020 1:30:29 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If gun ownership by private citizens scares DemocRats, the 2nd Amendment is doing its job.)
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To: sockmonkey

Prayers up for our soldiers!


4 posted on 02/08/2020 1:31:22 PM PST by Dacula
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To: Blood of Tyrants

*** What is the mission? ***

To keep our defense budget bloated on the back of taxpayers, and to fund the Military Industrial Complex.

Twenty more years in Afghanistan should do it.


5 posted on 02/08/2020 1:38:16 PM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: sockmonkey

Every time I read one of these stories I am saddened and my first thought is that we must leave.

Our men deserve better than to be wasted on that hellhole that holds no value to us.


6 posted on 02/08/2020 1:42:40 PM PST by Farcesensitive (K is coming)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Britain had, I believe four ‘Afghan Wars’. This is when they were the most powerful nation on earth. Britain left. The USSR had an Afghan war when it was the second most powerful nation on earth. They left. We’re the world’s superpower. We’ve been in Afghanistan for 19 years. Sooner or later we’re going to leave too.

It appears that the Afghans can’t abide being taken over by world powers. They just can stand it. And sooner or later, they win.


7 posted on 02/08/2020 1:51:21 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
If they don't want to peacefully join the rest of the world's civilization, eradicate all Afghani’s and then leave.
8 posted on 02/08/2020 2:08:08 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Leadership says we need to be there.. but no one in leadership says why. They just keep our sons and daughters as pawns in their hames.


9 posted on 02/08/2020 2:10:34 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: sockmonkey

Right from the playbook to engage U.S. forces simultaneously as “peace talks” go on. The Vietcong played this masterfully as well. America is closing in on losing this “war”. It’s a disgrace.


10 posted on 02/08/2020 2:16:49 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: sockmonkey

First reports are seldom correct, so hardly noteworthy.


11 posted on 02/08/2020 2:36:27 PM PST by centurion316 (.)
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To: shanover

Right from the playbook to engage U.S. forces simultaneously as “peace talks” go on.


I think it was at the end of the British first Afghan war that the British garrison, including women, children and Indian troops was promised safe passage from Kabul back to India. The Afghans slaughtered over 16,000 of them as they got to the Khyber Pass. One man made to India. Kipling offers to the wounded British soldier—save a bullet for yourself.


12 posted on 02/08/2020 2:39:43 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: sockmonkey

Let me guess: our guys were shot by their trusted Muslim companions

At least that’s how it’s gone down almost every time thus far.


13 posted on 02/08/2020 2:51:50 PM PST by Migraine
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To: Pox

We should, at the very least, inflict twice the number of casualties on them than they inflicted on us. Then we can get out.


14 posted on 02/08/2020 2:59:17 PM PST by be-baw
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To: Blood of Tyrants

We need to napalm all the poppy fields on our way out.


15 posted on 02/08/2020 3:38:13 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: airborne

Napalm. Then salt. Then more salt.

Then flatten every single village adjacent to every single field. Leave no survivors.

L


16 posted on 02/08/2020 3:40:57 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: centurion316

*** First reports are seldom correct, so hardly noteworthy. ***

Well, I have seen the posted photos of the dead US troops, and the uniformed afghanis don’t look too upset, fwiw.


17 posted on 02/08/2020 4:51:53 PM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: sockmonkey

That would be certainly be very different from the first reports.


18 posted on 02/08/2020 5:00:13 PM PST by centurion316 (.)
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To: hanamizu
Right from the playbook to engage U.S. forces simultaneously as “peace talks” go on.

Ditto in Korea and Vietnam. I was an infantryman in Vietnam in 1971 when the press and the politicians had announced that the U.S. was withdrawing and the war had been turned over the the South Vietnamese. The North Vietnamese Army did not get the memo.

19 posted on 02/08/2020 5:12:08 PM PST by centurion316 (.)
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To: Lurker

I like the way you think. I’m gonna be keeping an eye on you.


20 posted on 02/08/2020 5:49:53 PM PST by HighSierra5
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