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| 3 Americans Killed in Afghanistan |
| 2010-01-30 |
| KABUL — Two U.S. service members and one U.S. employee were killed Friday in eastern Afghanistan, pushing the American death toll this month to 29. NATO announced the deaths in a brief statement that did not say whether the three were killed by hostile fire or an accident. It said the incident was under investigation and no further information was available at this time. Officials said Friday's attack began about 10 a.m. when the insurgents opened fire from a hotel under construction near an army barracks. NATO said the Afghan troops backed by attack helicopters contained the gunmen in the vacant, four-story building. The fighting lasted more than seven hours as both sides fired at each other with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Store owners fled a nearby market area and streets elsewhere in the city emptied as authorities encouraged residents to stay home. "I was in my shop when I heard the loud noises from the fighting," said Haji Mohammad Karim. "We all closed our stores and went home. The city was like a ghost town. The only people on the streets were security forces." Deputy provincial governor Abdul Sattar Mirzekwal said two of the attackers blew themselves up while four other bullet-riddled bodies were found in the debris. Security forces reported four soldiers and two policemen wounded. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the Taliban had dispatched a team of seven men armed with suicide vests and machine guns to attack the local branch of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan and a guesthouse used by government officials in the city. Ahmadi said 20 foreigners had been killed and wounded, but Afghan officials said no deaths were reported other than the militants. Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial government, said officials had received tips in recent days that the Taliban planned an attack on government buildings in Lashkar Gah. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 I wonder if that V-22 had the belly mounted 7.62 Gatling gun. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-30 18:47 |
| #6 You use what assets you have in area. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-01-30 12:46 |
| #5 What the he$$ was an Osprey doing flying around there? It is NOT a "combat aircraft". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-01-30 12:31 |
| #4 Um. The answer is fairly obvious, but remains unspeakable... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-01-30 12:28 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2010-01-30 10:26 |
| #2 Interpreter kills 2 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan An interpreter in Afghanistan shot dead two U.S. soldiers, a U.S. military official said on Saturday, adding that the attacker appeared to be a disgruntled employee rather than a militant. The NATO-led force in Afghanistan said earlier that two U.S. service members and one "U.S. employee" had been killed in an incident in the east of the country on Friday, without giving further details. The interpreter was shot dead by other soldiers after killing the two. Afghan national or US immigrant? |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-30 09:43 |
| #1 Afghan govt condemns NATO airstrike on soldiers Let the truth be known - Afghan Army fires upon UN- American Soldiers ! |
| Posted by: Spike Craling6336 2010-01-30 09:14 |