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Attacks continue against the NATO occupation troops…
Four NATO soldiers, including three Canadians, were killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, while three Taliban militants were killed in a fight with Afghan and foreign forces in the western region, officials said Thursday. A soldier with International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in a explosion in southern [...]

Nato tries to hide Afghan massacres, as US casualties hit 500…

Simon Assaf reports…
The occupation of Afghanistan has entered a new and deeper crisis. A rising number of sophisticated attacks on foreign troops, combined with a growing rebellion in Pakistan and Russia’s crushing of Nato ally Georgia, have raised the prospect that the occupation is heading for defeat.
Now Afghan insurgents are tightening their grip on the [...]

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From AFP…
Eight international troops including three Poles and three Canadians have been killed in Afghanistan over the last 24 hours, a military source said Thursday.
News of the latest casualties came as French President Nicolas Sarkozy conducted a tribute ceremony in Paris for 10 French troops killed in an ambush near Kabul three days before.
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A bomb attack near a major US base in Afghanistan left at least one US trooper and 13 insurgents dead, officials said Tuesday, and later..
Ten French soldiers have been killed in fighting with Taliban insurgents east of the Afghan capital, an Afghan military official said today.
The soldiers, part of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), [...]

From AFP…
Three US-led coalition soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the force said, taking to 17 the number of international troops to die in the country this month.
The coalition did not give the nationalities of the soldiers or specify where they were killed in southern Afghanistan, which has seen some [...]


From AP…
As of Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 347 [...]

From the BBC…
A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
He received a single gunshot wound while on foot patrol and was evacuated by helicopter to a medical facility, but died as a result of his injuries.
His death brings the number of UK troops killed on operations in [...]

Stupid fucks…
U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police Sunday, calling in airstrikes and fighting on the ground for four hours after both sides mistook the other for militants, Afghan officials said.
In a separate incident, NATO said it accidentally killed at least four Afghan civilians Saturday night. A NATO soldier also was killed in [...]




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