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US military death toll in Afghanistan reaches 2,000 |
2012-09-30 |
The US military has suffered its 2,000th death in the Afghan war - with a suspected "insider" attack at a checkpoint in the east of the country. A US soldier and a foreign contractor were killed while two Afghan soldiers died and four were injured. The nationality of the contractor was not given immediately. Attacks by rogue elements in the Afghan security forces sharply increased this year, prompting the coalition to suspend joint operations this month. Requests for joint operations must now be approved by regional commanders. The American death toll goes back to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. The new deaths occurred on Saturday in Wardak province, a spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force said. The incident took place at a checkpoint near an Afghan National Army base in the district of Sayedabad, according to Afghan officials An Afghan soldier turned his gun on Americans and started shooting, Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman, told the Associated Press news agency. "Initial reports indicate that a misunderstanding happened between Afghan army soldiers and American soldiers," he said. It is unclear what happened to the Afghan soldier who allegedly opened fire first. Military officials from both sides have launched a joint investigation. |
Posted by:tipper |
#8 2000 dead for the communists in Washington since Carter! How is that Autism rate with all that good GM food the Military buys and serves to it's people any ways? The countries that don't use it unlike America and United Kingdom don't have the same problem! Hey Egypt was even smarter than the Pentagon and told Monsanto and all the spooks to shove their GMO then they got invaded! |
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 2012-09-30 16:59 |
#7 more info |
Posted by: tipper 2012-09-30 16:18 |
#6 OK, Elmereting, if it's worth fighting for, then by God, take the gloves off and fight! Sacrficing 2000+ when you have already given up is criminal! |
Posted by: Glenmore 2012-09-30 16:05 |
#5 For the US, Vietnam was a limited war in the context of a global cold war. Surrender thus had limited and calculable consequences for the US (not for South Vietnam.) On 9/11 the US was challenged on her own territory by a massive attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor. The consequences of losing the 9/11 war will be felt in North America. The Egyptian president, a member of the MB, is openly strutting around in the US, lecturing and not so subtly threatening Americans like a Soviet chairman would have threatened a satellite nation. A (former?) member of theocratic Iran's ruling class now a politically connected Imam in Dearborn in the US openly demands Sharia modifications to the US constitution. Ditto for a Hamas affiliated and politically connected Imam in NJ. And there's no protest from America's political class. Instead the POTUS. in the UN, not so subtly threatens those who deviate from Islamic orthodoxy. etc. etc. Unthinkable a few years ago, the new normal in |
Posted by: Elmereting Chaise6644 2012-09-30 15:51 |
#4 Same as I said c. 1969, 'If you don't have an intention and means of winning, you should not be fighting.' Surrender is bad but p*ssing away good men for NOTHING is far worse. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2012-09-30 12:21 |
#3 Yes. They can call it..."Grim Milestone™". |
Posted by: tu3031 2012-09-30 12:09 |
#2 ...That misbegotten nation is no longer worth a single American life. Having said that, today all I can think of is the ranting that went on a few years ago when the number of lost equalled the 9/11 casualties, and so many in the MSM screamed that we had to come home now...we were "even". Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2012-09-30 12:04 |
#1 I'm sure this will be extensively covered by the MSM with specials like Nightline etc /sarc off |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-30 09:57 |