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| 7 Georgian Troops Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Blast |
| 2013-06-07 |
| [An Nahar] Seven Georgian troops were killed and nine were maimed in a suicide kaboom in Afghanistan when hard boyz attacked their base, the pro-Western Caucasus country's army chief said Thursday. "Seven military servicemen were killed" when a "suicide terrorist" blew up a truck loaded with explosives outside a Georgian military base in Afghanistan's Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, General Irakli Dzneladze, chief of the Georgian army joint staff, told a news conference. The incident brings to 30 the corpse count of Georgian soldiers serving in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF). On May 13, three Georgian soldiers were killed in a similar suicide attack on their base in southern Afghanistan. "I offer my deepest condolences to the families of our fallen heroes and to all of Georgia," Georgia's staunchly pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili said in a televised address. "Our duty to their memory is to continue our path towards NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... membership," he said. Georgia has 1,570 troops serving in Afghanistan's Helmand province, making the small Caucasus country of 4.5 million the largest non-NATO contributor to ISAF, according to the defense ministry. |
| Posted by:Fred |