Three US Soliders Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Attack

[Flaneur]

Source: Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers died after a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO said in a statement.

No details were given. U.S.-led troops launched a NATO offensive on Saturday in the Taliban's last major stronghold in Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province. It was not clear whether the three were killed in that campaign.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61C15120100213

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I don't think the three killed in this incident were part of the Marjah offensive.

One Marine reported killed in Marjah: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/13/AR2010021302089.html

One British troop reported killed in Marjah: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8513846.stm

[Snow Bird]

1. 42 years after TET

February 1968. We arguably "won" that battle but lost the war, not to mention a President was driven from office.

Those that don't know...are destined to repeat.

[saigon68]

3. Been there done that

Smelled death too. Nothing more lasting as a memory than a couple dozen corpses left to rot in 95 degree and 100% humidity weather for a couple of weeks. Go visit Haiti, I'm sure if you missed the Nam this will acquaint you with the experience of rotting corpses.

[Rapier09]

2. The Marjah offensive reminds is 90% bs and 10% special effects

The US leadership will be so kind as to provide the bs whereas the Taliban will be so kind to provide special effects.

[bemildred]

4. British spearhead allied offensive in Afghanistan

A soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards was killed by an explosion yesterday at the start of the operation described as the biggest of the eight-year conflict in Afghanistan.

A US marine and 20 Taliban were also reported to have died in Operation Moshtarak, which is being conducted with Afghan forces. The mission, a test of President Barack Obama’s troop surge, is aimed at regaining control of towns across central Helmand.

Thousands of troops took part in an American-led air and ground assault to seize control of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah.

British soldiers landing in waves of helicopters joined forces with other troops on the ground to take Taliban territory near Nad-e-Ali, to the northeast.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7026363.ece

[bemildred]

5. Surprise tactic in Afghanistan offensive befuddles Taliban

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Although billed as a major confrontation between the international coalition and Afghan forces and the Taliban, the first day of the offensive in the southern Helmand province saw only sporadic fighting. Two coalition soldiers were killed, along with about 20 insurgents. It was the biggest assault since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

The helicopter airlift into the heart of the city of 80,000 started around 2 a.m. and allowed the troops to quickly establish 11 posts throughout Marjah, while the bulk of the 15,000-man force carefully picked its way over land.

The operation had been deliberately telegraphed in advance for weeks but the military tactics still seem to have surprised the enemy.

"We appear to have caught the insurgents on the hop. He appears to be completely dislocated," Major General Nick Carter, the British officer who is in charge of operations in south Afghanistan, told reporters at his base in Kandahar. "I'm much encouraged by the way things are going but I'm also conscious that this is only the end of the beginning."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1478899.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. WHY are the USA and it's foolish allies(we're one of them - sadly) IN Afghanistan anyways?

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Wasn't it to find the perpetrators of 911?

which SHOULD have been a job for International Police anyways -

I think we know by now that Osama was just an excuse to get the "superpower" to invade Afghanistan -

my question is still WHY?

My answer?

To gain control of the Middle East, one purpose to surround Iran, just as it was the excuse for Iraq -

Iraq

first it was WMD's

then it was "freedom" for the Iraqi people

so far, the USA has freed up the oil fields for foreign plundering, and the country of Iraq for the largest USAmerican Fortress(embassy) on foreign soil in the history of the World.

and so on ...

BTW - how many TRILLIONS of dollars are the USAmerican taxpayers gonna have to spend to find this bogeyman Osama?

and more important,

how many millions of gallons of blood does the USAmerican electorate want on its hands . . . ?