At least 37 people were killed and around 40 others wounded today when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people outside the Afghan National Army base in Kunduz Province. Though a number of civilians were also killed, it appears that most of the casualties were recruits.
The strike came amid growing warnings from the Taliban for Afghans to neither join the security forces nor associate with them, and it seems the ability to launch such attacks is fueling frustration for officials, such as Provincial Council head Mahbobullah Mahbob, who said he is “really afraid that one day I, too, will get killed.”
The attack was just the latest in a growing number of attacks in Kunduz that have killed large numbers of people. On Friday the Kunduz Provincial Police Chief was slain along with two of his bodyguards by a suicide bomber.
The Kunduz Province is in the far north of Afghanistan and was once an extremely calm region with little Taliban influence. As the war has dragged on, however, the Taliban has established a foothold even here, causing major problems for NATO nations that deployed there in the hopes of avoiding combat.
Marine Cpl.Ian M. Muller, 22, of Danville, VT., died Friday, March 11 while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Army Sgt., 1st class Duncan Park, 36, Watertown , Conn.,
died Saturday, March 12, in Wardak province,
from an IED attack..
thanks for the info…it's almost like they are hiding American casualties these days…thought that was just a Bush thing. Apparently not.
Playing poker or stock market is less risky than serving foreign occupiers and invaders.
I have a feeling that Antiwar has given up on telling people about solders that are dying in Afghanistan.., it is sad for people to join army to get what they need for educating themselves, to become a true hero at home educating others. This is the uncle Sam system doing its best killing its own people.
Condolences to their family.
Leave Afghanistan and Pakistan before it is too late and the public will follow them. Unjust war to kill afghans is a catastrophic.
In Afghan history most of the invaders have the same fate i.e. destoryed.
No matter what one thinks about the Taleban, fact remains they are Afghans. For Afghans joining an army set up and funded by the foreign invaders for the sole purpose of serving the invaders own interests, they are betraying their own country which is an unpatriotic act. During WW2 the Germans had their 'quisling' armies in the countries they had occupied. Many of them were tried after the war and executed. (Petain in France; Mussert in the Netherlands; Quisling in Norway to mention just a few). This doesn't mean that one is 'pro-Taleban' which I am most certainly not; that has nothing to do with it, but we have to look at these things in an objective and unemotional way and try to find different ways to change Afghan society in a more tollerant and 'democratic' one.
To you democrats: look the falsified democracy is bankrupt as capitalism has.., you don’t have any other choice but strangle people to accept your change in a dictatorial militarism regime both at home and overseas or do accept the peoples voice for change and help them to accomplish long over due democracy where ever you hear their voice. To People, all these wars are not the peoples wars, these war created by few and for the few, these wars are emperors wars, these wars are China, Islam, US and EUs wars. All of you from US to EU, from Middle East to Africa have the right to demand your freedom and stop these inhumane wars. Only you can stop these madness not your puppet regime, they are there to make deal with those who are responsible starting the wars making you their slaves.