KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents killed 10 NATO soldiers on Monday, seven of them Americans, military officials said. It was the worst single day for the foreign forces operating in Afghanistan in the past seven months.
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.The deaths came in five separate attacks in the south and east of the country, according to statements from the International Security Assistance Force, as the NATO force in Afghanistan is known.
In addition, a civilian American security guard was killed Monday, along with another guard whose nationality was not immediately clear, in a suicide attack on the police training center in the southern city of Kandahar.
Five of the American soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb, known as a improvised explosive device or I.E.D., in eastern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the American military, Lt. Col. Joseph T. Breasseale, confirmed. Two other American soldiers were killed by an I.E.D. in southern Afghanistan, he said.
In addition, statements released by ISAF said two NATO soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, one by small arms fire and another by an I.E.D., while a third NATO soldier was killed in eastern Afghanistan by small arms fire. In keeping with its standard practice, ISAF did not immediately disclose the nationalities of those soldiers, but they were not American. All names were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
In the attack on the Kandahar police training center Monday, three suicide bombers struck the gate of the center, one driving a car bomb and the other two apparently with explosive vests, according to a statement by the Afghan Ministry of Interior. The only damage they did was to the outer wall of the center’s compound, the statement said.
A subsequent statement from the American embassy said two civilians had been killed in that an attack, one of them an American citizen. News reports said the two victims were both employees of an American security company guarding the facility.
The day before, on Sunday, five NATO soldiers lost their lives, including three who were killed in a vehicle accident, one who was killed by an I.E.D. in southern Afghanistan, and another who was killed by an “insurgent attack” in eastern Afghanistan, according to statements from ISAF.
The previous worst day for NATO troops was last Oct. 26, when 11 Americans died, according to icasualties.org, an independent group that tracks soldier deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those deaths were all from helicopter crashes. On that day, seven U.S. Army soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Afghanistan and four Marines were killed when two helicopters crashed into one another in Helmand Province in the south.
Through June 6, a total of 1,812 NATO soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the American-led invasion that ousted the Taliban from power in 2001, 1,020 of them Americans, according to icasualties.org’s figures. This year, NATO has lost 245 soldiers in Afghanistan, 153 of them Americans, as of June 6. In Iraq, 150 American soldiers died in 2009, and 32 so far this year.
Bad day for invading terrorists, the 'civilians' they claim were killed are actually pmc terrorists - usually blackwater
He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: and He is Full of Mercy to the Believers. [Quran {33:43}] www.QuranicAudio.com www.Quran.com
It beats sitting at home and talking about? secondly I am not a 'celebrity' and lastly what is the point of this moronic exercise?
are we quantifying our level of empathy?.. I am so amused by these byway deflections that come out of nowhere to steer the topic from where it ought to be to some imaginary place where one of you gets an ample chance to whine about something so ancillary!
Take a deep breath. Relax. No one is accusing you of anything here.
lol.. are you responsible for wishing you can rob the national bank (let's make it altruistic, a robbery for the sake of the poor) when the national bank gets robbed by folks that have positively nothing to do with you, should you be held accountable?
You want to talk logic, I suggest you get back to your community college and re-enlist for that philosophy course so you can weave it better into your contentions here!
Jeez, I shouldn't have to spell this out for you. If those robbers rob the bank on account of my wish, and I knew that my wish would come true, then yes I am responsible. Similarly, when you pray, and you've admitted that you believe your prayers will actually come true, and if it happens on account of your prayer (which you are hoping) then you share responsibility. Though since your prayer will never (hopefully) come true it's not a big deal I guess. Your intentions, however, make you guilty. This is the third time I am explaining this excruciatingly simple point. Don't you doctors ever practice reading comprehension? Or is it just that you throw rationality out the window the moment the discussion involves anything personal? It's a bad habit to let your judgment be clouded by emotions
Your community college jokes are distastefulness at best, though I don't expect an arrogant person like yourself to ever be mindful that there might actually be a person here, Muslim or not, attending a community college that find your remarks offensive.
Actually googling a fact seems more like your brand of expertise! I pray they suffer a loss that is great, for amongst other reasons, they'd have an understanding when they grow up of the terrors their folks inflicted upon others, perhaps it would humanize them a little!
Okay, then join hands in prayer wiht me and let us wish for the constant suffering of all people around the world in hopes that they will grow up to be better humans.
I had no doubt that you should not be able to relate to the suffering of the Palestinians, or the afghanis or the Chechnyans, the iraqis etc etc... their lives are more horrific than your simpleton mind and effete life can possibly fathom!
all the best
Only someone living in their community, feeling their plight as it happens, can say they relate...not a doctor from Amreeka
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato
Jeez, I shouldn't have to spell this out for you. If those robbers rob the bank on account of my wish, and I knew that my wish would come true, then yes I am responsible. Similarly, when you pray, and you've admitted that you believe your prayers will actually come true, and if it happens on account of your prayer (which you are hoping) then you share responsibility. Though since your prayer will never (hopefully) come true it's not a big deal I guess. Your intentions, however, make you guilty. This is the third time I am explaining this excruciatingly simple point. Don't you doctors ever practice reading comprehension? Or is it just that you throw rationality out the window the moment the discussion involves anything personal? It's a bad habit to let your judgment be clouded by emotions
you need a psychiatrist who enjoys a challenge.. if you enjoy guilt by proxy then you are more guilty for actively voting for corrupt governments that enable these crimes to go in the first place!
Your community college jokes are distastefulness at best, though I don't expect an arrogant person like yourself to ever be mindful that there might actually be a person here, Muslim or not, attending a community college that find your remarks offensive.
No shame in attending a community college if you can rise above the mediocre display of education or in this case lack thereof!
Okay, then join hands in prayer wiht me and let us wish for the constant suffering of all people around the world in hopes that they will grow up to be better humans.
You believe in God?
Only someone living in their community, feeling their plight as it happens, can say they relate...not a doctor from Amreeka
I didn't say I can relate to soldiers coming in raping them and rendering them orphans, I said I am angered by what happens to them because Muslims are one ummah, a single body, when a part of it suffers the whole suffers!
all the best?
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
I'm not sure whether you are just sick, have severe comprehension problems, or both. No wonder anti-Islamic sentiment is on the rise in your country if you are typical of Dutch muslims.
and non-muslims westerners are in mourning each time a muslim is killed in Palestine, Afghanistan or Iraq?
LOL.
you need a psychiatrist who enjoys a challenge.. if you enjoy guilt by proxy then you are more guilty for actively voting for corrupt governments that enable these crimes to go in the first place!
I don't vote actually. That's actually a great analogy; you're basically asking your government (God) to cause a group of people suffering with the belief that your government will listen to you. Makes you guilty my dear
No shame in attending a community college if you can rise above the mediocre display of education or in this case lack thereof!
There shouldn't be any shame in the first place...don't you think? University is a hefty investment and for a lot of things it just doesn't pay off. It's too bad people can't go to school just for the sake of learning; everyone's gotta worry about jobs and this market pressure is forcing universities to pretend like they're trade schools. I've said it before and I will say it again: plato would turn in his grave if he saw what his Academy has turned into . Though I don't regret a university education.
You believe in God?
I do but what I said was complete sarcasm to show how ridiculous your excuse for wishing suffering on children was.
I didn't say I can relate to soldiers coming in raping them and rendering them orphans, I said I am angered by what happens to them because Muslims are one ummah, a single body, when a part of it suffers the whole suffers!
imperfect humans are imperfect humans. in a perfect world we wouldn't blame innocent parties; let's strive to make the world a better place
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato
(I am counting on the admins and mods to take out this rubbish as soon as possible)
Although I don't agree with all of the comments made by Blackpool, if his messages are removed then surely messages bragging about enjoying people being beheaded and messages calling western people "filth" should be removed as well?
No western person on this board has said they are happy with the invasion and do feel sympathy for the Afghani civilians. Of course we also feel sympathy for people who are kept as hostages for ages before being beheaded, it'd be inhuman not to whether you agree with the invasion or not. At the end of the day soldiers go where they are told and aren't all just monsters enjoying killing innocent people like is being made out.
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