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| 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghan Ambush |
| 2003-03-29 |
| Two U.S. special forces soldiers were killed and another was wounded Saturday in an ambush in southern Afghanistan. The soldiers were on a reconnaissance patrol in Helmand province when they were attacked. Three Afghan soldiers were wounded, said an intelligence chief in southern Afghanistan. The soldiers were inspecting a school and hospital being built with American funding, said Dad Mohammed Khan, the intelligence chief of Helmand. "Two U.S. Special Forces were killed and one wounded when their four vehicle-mounted reconnaissance patrol was ambushed in the vicinity of Geresk," the U.S. military said in a statement from a U.S. military base north of the capital, Kabul. Four people on two motorcycles ambushed the U.S. vehicles and escaped, Khan said, identifying the assailants as fighters of the former Taliban regime. Two days earlier, unidentified gunmen shot to death a water engineer working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Ricardo Munguia, 39, was killed when his car was intercepted on a dirt road while he was returning from Tarin Kot, in neighboring Uruzgan province, to Kandahar. Geresk is about 70 miles west of Kandahar. The deaths bring to 18 the number of combat casualties suffered by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The last death occurred Dec. 21, when Army Sgt. Steven Checo, 22, of New York, was killed in a gunfight during a nighttime operation in the eastern province of Paktika, near the Pakistani border. |
| Posted by:Anonymous |
| #2 WHITE WASH AND COVERUP AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT Fred: Should people click on the attached link? When one of the world's largest jihad organizations (Jamaat-i-Islami) is caught - FOUR TIMES!!! - harboring al-Qaeda, that should be news. The State Department, which pays consultation fees to the JI's American front - ISNA - is refusing to place that group on its terror list. State is covering up the fact that they paid JI Islamofascist #1 - Qazi Hussein Ahmad - for DC consultations with Karl Indefurth (SE Asia Affairs) in July 2000. State depravity has now allowed the Musharaf government to release the harborer of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Don't do the human doormats at State a favor by being party to their coverup. http://www.kashmirherald.com/index1.html |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-03-29 13:23:15 |
| #1 Triple postings. I screwed up again; sorry for the needed cleaning up. Much more seriously, that's too bad for theses two brave men; theses days, a lot of US servicemen are dying or being wounded fighting a dictatorship, while people about their age are comfortably "defending democracy" by laying naked on the grass, making noises on the street or bravely skipping a schoolday. Disgusting. Toutes mes condoléances, from an US-loving lefty euroweenie. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-29 11:55:15 |