Posted on 07/08/2012 6:56:06 PM PDT by kristinn
Six American troops were killed in a roadside blast today in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. official told ABC News. Details about the deadly incident remain vague.
Earlier today, a press release by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said six ISAF servicemembers “died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today.”
The nationalities of the victims were not identified because “it is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities,” the statement said.
A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that the six killed in today’s attack were Americans, but did not have specific details about the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
My heart goes out to their families, brothers-in-arms, and friends in great sorrow and more tears.
Also to the family who lost a member in South Afghanistan this weekend. There are those of us who pray and watch and grieve with you. God forbid our anger is released at an inopportune time.
I had read earlier that a person in the military was killed and 5 wounded, but my sources are not always reliable. It must have been true...
“The deaths take the number of NATO troops killed in the last two days to eight, one of the deadliest periods of violence for foreign troops in weeks.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-afghanistan-bombbre8670ew-20120708,0,327670.story
Got that right...
You BETCHA Big Media is keeping this report as hush-hush as possible, don’t want to make Hussein’s election propaganda job on America any more difficult by reporting the details of THESE 6 Americans killed.
Hence, SUDDENLY we have an indictment to protect Uncle Tom Holder, and NO ONE IS SUPPOSED TO CARE about the 6 American soldiers Hussein got killed.
“NATO troops” for their god Hussein, and “Another 6 American troops” when it’s a Republican president.
There’s a WOMAN soldier among Big Media’s already-forgotten six casualties.
That’s why Big Media is having such a hard time reporting this.
Just today I found out that my 20 year old Marine grandson is headed to Afganistan.
Even sicker is that we’re about to send more men to fight and die to prop up the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria.
They all have dogs for foot patrols but I was thinking about the way the wind blows. The robots are used after the IED is located.
I’ve been getting daily DOD updates for years now, but I go for local news to get it quicker. It’s foreign and not always reliable, slanted at times...
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/World+News/Asia/Afghanistan
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