NATO predictions that the usual winter lull would not come to pass this year in Afghanistan appear to be well supported tonight, following a day of violence across the nation which left at least six NATO troops dead.
According to NATO statements, three died in a roadside bomb attack in the east, which another died in an insurgent attack in the same region. Another still was killed by a bombing in the south, which the sixth died of “non-battle-related” injuries.
The nationalities of the slain have not been released, but they amount to the deadliest day of the new year, and brings the 2011 toll up to 17. NATO officials have predicted 2011 will be even more violent than 2010, which saw 711 NATO forces killed.
The 2010 toll was itself the highest yet since the US invaded in 2001, and despite record tolls among combatants and civilians, NATO estimates from last week suggest that the Taliban is just as strong today as they were at the end of 2009, when the US announced their most recent escalation into Afghanistan.
So in the coming days, when the location, nationality, and circumstance of death is revealed by the Department of Defense, than surely AntiWar would like to report if these Nato soldiers are indeed US soldiers?
And if the "Nato" soldier reported killed in the "south" is confirmed as from the US, than surely the American public would be interested in knowing that the soldier is the fifty second US soldier to die in Helmand since Sept. 1, 2010.
I'm not going to believe this story until I read it in a cable on WikiLeaks.
You can't believe a word Nato (which is another word for America) says. You can't believe anything that comes out of the White House either. According to them Afghanistan is a major success and the American economy is booming.
The only thing that is booming is what the drones fire at wedding parties.
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This is true that Nato forces are dying but their nummers are ficticious. as Busch said we don,t body bags.
This is major success for the west.
Let the carnage continue. Even if things are going so well for the US in Afghanistan…
Three of the six soldiers reported killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday have been identified by the Department of Defense. They were from the United States and were killed by an IED in Ghanzi province.