[kristinn]

God bless the souls of our brave soldiers and may He comfort their families.

Fox is quoting the AP saying 9 soldiers were killed in an attack involving machine guns and mortars.

[Dacula]

Prayers up

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I sure hope the attackers were read their Miranda rights and didn’t have their phones tapped without a court order.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Something’s not right with this story. While I’m not doubting the casualty count, something very bad happened that will probably result in some heads rolling in the U.S. Army’s high command there.

[denydenydeny]

While the Taliban has been suffering enormous casualties for the last year in Helmand and the south, the most hard-core Taliban and Al Qaeda regulars have been in the northeast, adjacent to Kunar, and attacks from that direction have been predicted for a long time. We definitely need more resources up there.

[kristinn]

In Helmand province, Nato and Afghan troops reported killing 40 bad guys today who tried to ambush them:

"The ensuing fight led ANSF (Afghanistan National Security Forces) and coalition forces to return fire and call for precision air strikes,'' it said.

"At least 40 militants have been killed in the last two days, while over 30 enemy boats and several ... bridges were also destroyed on the Helmand River.''

[Bishop_Malachi]

Prayers up for these soldiers and their families.

[RightWhale]

Some number of soldiers curently assigned to Iraq ar possibly being reassigned to Afghanistan. Pakistan needs to understand that this escalation is their fault.

[johnnycap]

Our prayers go out to the families of those brave soldiers. However, for the BBC to call these losses “heavy” is misleading. US Heavy losses are:

Antietam: North: One Day: 2108
South: Same Day: 1,546

D Day: 1465 Dead

Those are heavy casualties for a single day of fighting. God bless our troops and give us the wisdom to keep things in perspective.

[marktwain]

“US Suffers Heavy Afghan Losses (Reports of 8 or 9 killed in Kunar Province Attack)”

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If the BBC had this attitude in WWII, we would all be speaking German.

[SE Mom]

Thanks for finding this- I was looking for a NON AP link for this story to post.

Thanks and prayers to our soldiers and their familes.

[McGruff]

using homes, shops and the mosque in the village of Wanat for cover...a suicide bomber killed at least 21 people, many of them children, in a market in the Deh Rawud...

F*ng cowards we're fighting there. Come out and die like a man if you have the guts!

[G Larry]

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!

[Soliton]

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.

[MEG33]

Rest In Peace Brave Warriors

May God Comfort All Who Mourn

[Dog]

The number could rise...brace yourselves. Sounds like the base was overrun..

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.

[metesky]

8 Soldiers killed in worse U.S. battle since D-Day!

Oh, and 40 enemy were killed, a 5/1 kill ratio.

[1035rep]

God bless the souls of our brave soldiers and may He comfort their families.

Amen

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like it might be time to clean house again.And after so doing we need to destroy every single blessed poppy plant in the country thus denying the 9th Century beasts who sell it the funds to but their weapons.

[Straight Vermonter]

Ping

[Chgogal]

Many prayers up for our Troopers and their families. You are in our thoughts, hearts and prayers.