Four NATO troops were killed in Afghanistan a day after the Taliban took responsibility for the shootdown of a helicopter that killed 30 US soldiers, their translator, and seven Afghan troops. Some of the dead included the very SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden.
Two of the soldiers were French, killed in an attack in the Tagab valley, in northeast of the country. The two others were American, killed when their vehicle rove over a roadside bomb near Kabul.
Nearly 150 NATO troops have been killed in helicopter crashes and shootdowns since the 2001 invasion, some 100 of whom have been American.
But the main source of fatalities for foreign troops has been the homemade bombs — “improvised explosive devices,” or IEDs — used by local insurgents, planted on roadsides. These bombs have killed over 1,700 occupying soldiers and wounded nearly 8,000. And AFP reports IED use is on the rise.
383 foreign soldiers have been killed so far this year in Afghanistan, and 711 were kill last year, according to icasualties.org.
I believe Matt 26:52 applies here: "…all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
SAD SOLDIERS ARE WILLING TO LITSEN TO ORDERS TO FIGHT KILL AND DIE LEAVING FAMILLY MEMBERS GREIVING.NOT IN WARS TO FIGHT PEOPLE THAT ATTACK AMERICA TO FIGHT ILLEGAL UNCONSTITUTIOAL WARS THAT KILL AMERICANS AND CIVILLIAN MOTHER,FATHERS,CHILDREN SISTER BROTHERS AND OTHER LOVED ONES.AMERICANS SHOULD BE ASAMED OF THERE GOVERNMENT THAT DESTOYED YOUR COUNRY ON PERPOSE.BELIVE WHAT YOU WANT I KNOW 9/11 AND 7/7 WERE FAULS FLAGS.IGGEST CRIMINALS IN THE WORLDS THINK THEY RUN THE WORLD.YOU THINK YOU WILL WHEN THE WORLDS ALMOST 7 BILLION PEOPLE ALL WAKE UP AND REALIZE HOW REALLY HAS THE POWER.GOOD PEOPLE IN THE MILITARS WILL STAND WITH THERE CITIZES WITCH ARE FRIEDS AND FAMILLY.
In the nine years of the Soviet war in Afghanistan 14, 500 troops were killed. The Mujaheddin fighters were receiving $600 million per year from the USA and the matching amount from the Gulf States.
The British could never subjugate the Afghan inhabitants, fighting three bloody war in 19th and 20th Century…
Does history ever teach anybody not to repeat past blunders?!
You're going to want to add an "ed" to the word kill in that last sentence.
Time to come home and stop spilling red ink and red water everywhere.
The most powerful army in the history of the world is in battle RIGHT NOW! in Afghanistan. Equipped with the most sophisticated weaponry man kind has ever known. But it's not a fair fight. The Iranian are helping the Taliban. The Taliban airforce, navy, army and it's central intelligence agencies are receiving help from Iran. Unreported is that Taliban submarines, helicopters and tanks are coming from Iran and being used against our Great Army. We are protecting Israel where Jesus died for our sins. Jesus was not a Taliban, he was an American soldier…fighting for truth, justice and the American way and he was also God and a little bird called the Holy Ghost.
We must never forget that this was is a war for Jesus and it helps wash away sins.
How else can we explain how the greatest army in the history of the world is having such difficulty?
It's because Iran hates Jesus.
We must destroy Iran. All of them must be exterminated. It's what God wants.
Are we going to deny God? Or are we going to continue to fight these medieval creatures who don't fight fair with their IUD's and all that yelling and complaining about how Americans torture them, rape their small teenage children and then burn them and use our brave young fighting drones to kill them off.
C'mon America!
Navy Seals essentially operate like a 'Death Squad'. They carry out assassinations, massacres, sabotage. Unlike the death squads of Central America though, their province is the entire world and like James Bond they have a license to kill. Their operations are top secret and there is probably no oversight over their actions. Certainly not our 'patriotic' legislators, who wouldn't dream of questioning anything 'military' or 'security'. If I say anything more there'll be a heap of trouble so I'll leave it at that.