May God Comfort All Who Mourn
Posted on 07/13/2008 10:16:53 AM PDT by kristinn
At least eight US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in clashes with Taleban militants.
US commander Daniel Dwyer told the BBC the soldiers had been killed in clashes in the north-east of the country.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says it is one of the biggest single losses in a day for the coalition since the start of military operations there.
The attack came as international and Afghan security forces battled militants on several fronts.
On Sunday, US forces said 40 insurgents had been killed in Helmand province in the past 24 hours.
There are conflicting reports as to where the latest attack took place.
A foreign military spokesman said US soldiers and members of the Afghan National Army came under attack in Kunar province, near the border with Pakistan.
But Afghan officials insist the fighting took place in neighbouring Nuristan Province.
Nato reported that a small American Combat Outpost in Dara-I-Pech district of Kunar Province, came under heavy fire at around 04.30 local time.
It said insurgents had fired "with small arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars using homes, shops and the mosque in the village of Wanat for cover."
Local officials say a number of civilians and militants were killed in the attack.
Our correspondent says there are frequent attacks in the area.
In a separate incident on Sunday, a suicide bomber killed at least 21 people, many of them children, in a market in the Deh Rawud district of Uruzgan province.
something very bad happened that will probably result in some heads rolling in the U.S. Army’s high command there.......................................................Sometimes an ambush is just that and it sounds like the enemy got lucky.
This version of the story fails to mention the ambush fire came from homes and mosques!
Time to treat mosques as terror headquarters and flatten them.
The idea that we should continue to let them use our culture and “rules of engagement” against is foolish and must end NOW!
The Dwyer they are quoting isn’t a spokesman but the head of a navy reconstruction team.
There is nothing on the DOD afganistan site.
God Bless the North.
And God Bless the Rebs.
Thank you for that timely reminder, Johnny.
The governor of Nuristan, Doctor Hazrat Hazratin Noor, told The Times: "The Taliban attacked the US base yesterday and the American planes bombed the area. After the attack, the US troops decided to move their base to the district centre of Wanat and they tried to build shelters there in the bazaar overnight. Now the Taliban have attacked again."
This could be very bad news.
Oh, and 40 enemy were killed, a 5/1 kill ratio.
God bless the souls of our brave soldiers and may He comfort their families.
Amen
Ping
Already ready here and posted...:-)
Though details of the attack were not immediately available, an earlier statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Afghan and ISAF soldiers were involved in "heavy fighting" with insurgents at a command outpost in Kunar province.
"Insurgents have been firing at the [command outpost] with small arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, using homes, shops and the mosque in the village of Wanat for cover," according to the statement.
ISAF and Afghan soldiers, backed by air support, responded with small arms, machine guns, mortars and artillery, the statement said.
"There have been casualties on both sides of the fight, but accurate numbers could not be confirmed as the fighting is ongoing at the time of this release," the statement said.
Many prayers up for our Troopers and their families. You are in our thoughts, hearts and prayers.
We may never know. Soldiers may have just dropped their guard and bunched up. In Vietnam, Special Forces use of guides and interpreters of dubious alleigance probably resulted in more that one SF team going missing.
We already have a winner in the contest for who can make the most ignorant remark about a story that is completely lacking in verified facts and contextual framework. Congratulations, you can claim your prize over at your nearest Obama campaign office.
My mother in law (RIP) said we should “ drop the A bomb on em” back in 2001. With quick thinking like hers- this would have been over long ago. What is stopping us now I wonder??
Info here :
Fighting ongoing :
Seems to be the same story,,,
Dara-I-Pech district of Kunar province...
My mother in law (RIP) said we should “ drop the A bomb on em” back in 2001. With quick thinking like hers- this would have been over long ago. What is stopping us now I wonder??
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