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Title: PRT REPAIRS DAMAGE AFTER VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS Release Date: 2/13/2006 Release Number: 06-02-01P Title: PRT REPAIRS DAMAGE AFTER VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS Release Date: 2/13/2006 Release Number: 06-02-01P Description: BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – The Coalition’s provincial reconstruction team in Zabul Province has provided funding and other resources to repair a Red Crescent Society clinic and a boys’ school damaged in demonstrations Feb. 8. The demonstrations involved about 400 Afghans, some of whom marched through downtown Qalat, hurling rocks at government facilities. After assessing the damage, members of the Qalat PRT provided funds for local contractors to make repairs. They also negotiated replacement...

The day started off slow, but as word spread, more Afghan residents arrived for treatment. By Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2005 — Afghan and coalition forces health care professionals provided medical civil assistance to Afghans and their livestock in the Qalat area Oct. 2. Two local physicians, Afghan National Army and police doctors, and a coalition medical team treated more than 400 men, women and children, as well as 60 livestock in their one-day visit. "Our efforts here will show the people the benefits of what peace brings, the growing capabilities of this new Afghan government,...

Four US soldiers have been killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, the US military said. The explosion took place as they were on patrol in the Daychopan district, Zabul province, it said in a statement. The three wounded were hurt while trying to pull the others out of their armoured vehicle which had been hit by the explosion. Earlier on Sunday, suspected Taleban fighters killed two Islamic clerics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2005 – Afghan and coalition forces stopped several terrorist attacks on Aug. 5 and 6 when they destroyed three improvised explosive devices in southern and eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said today. The first IED was found near Mehtar Lam, in Laghman province, and transferred to a nearby company of Marines. The Marines rendered the device safe before transporting it to a U.S. military base, where it will be destroyed, officials said. The second IED was discovered in southern Afghanistan. Afghan police forces disabled the device, made from an anti-tank mine, before turning it over to U.S....