In one of the boldest attacks of 2009, hundreds of insurgents attacked a pair of US outposts in the remote Nuristan Province of Afghanistan yesterday, sparking a day-long firefight that left at least eight US soldiers and two Afghan police dead.
Nuristan’s governor, Jamaluddin Badar, said that the insurgents managed to breach both compounds before eventually being driven back, and the police chief for the district and several other police were captured by the attackers.
So far no specific group has taken credit for the attacks, but officials say the attack was launched from a nearby village. The US has confirmed that it is now planning to abandon the outposts, but it was unclear if the plan was a direct result of the attack.
A remote and generally quiet province in the Hindu Kush, Nuristan has only rarely made headlines for violence. In July of 2008, hundreds of militants attacked US forces in an eerily similar strike called the Battle of Wanat. That strike killed nine US soldiers and wounded 27 others, and likewise led to the US abandoning positions around that village.
Eight more body bags filled. Eight more families devastated. This is a stupid, hopeless, unwinnable war. It's time for Obama to admit this obvious fact and pull the troops out before anyone else gets killed.
To Steve Hogan: I totally agree with you; the damned war needs to end NOW! Unfortunately, I fear that Mr. Obama is taking all of his orders from the same Imperial American Ruling Establishment (the corporate-banking-military-political complex) that Mr. Bush was taking his orders from. The war will end; it will end when the American Ruling Establishment completely destroys the value of the dollar and bankrupts the American people. That could happen any day now. Prepare, my friend, prepare.
To Steve Hogan: I totally agree with you; the damned war needs to end NOW! Unfortunately, I fear that Mr. Obama is taking all of his orders from the same Imperial American Ruling Establishment (the corporate-banking-military-political complex) that Mr. Bush was taking his orders from. The war will end; it will end when the American Ruling Establishment completely destroys the value of the dollar and bankrupts the American people. That could happen any day now. And America will explode. Prepare, my friend, prepare.
Biggest problem is America's media.Just watch tomorrows headline news— floods in some far way country . For the 8 idiots, who enlisted for an free education, far back pages,along used car sales banners .
Does anyone know if media are government regulated and if there is– any real teeth!