April 20, 2012, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that four U.S. led personnel were killed when a U.S. Black Hawk crashed in Helmand Province the day before.
Afghan officials say the helicopter was medivacing wounded Afghan police officers, who had been attacked by a suicide bomber, in the Garmsir district. Local officials think the medivac went down because of bad weather.
There are reports that four Afghan policeman were killed after the suicide bomber exploded himself at a checkpoint.
Also in Garmsir district yesterday, a lone man attacked an Afghan military patrol. He was detained.
The failed medivac operation was not part of a larger battle that took place in Helmand on the same day. Afghan officials say that battle took place in Washir district.
Afghan officials claim to have killed 10 Mujahideen in that battle, along with the destruction of a mine production company.
Helmand saw other military/police operations such as an operation which tore up 1250 hectares (3088.817 acres) of farm land used for opium poppies. The operation took place in Nad-e-Ali, Marjah and Sangin districts.
On April 19, 2012, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, numb nuts Ryan Crocker, blamed the current Mujahideen Spring Offensive on the so called “Haqqani network” of Pakistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary, numb nuts Leon Panetta, also blamed the “Haqqani network”.
April 20, 2012, an Afghan politician says his opponent, President Hamid Karzai, is planning on creating a coalition government with the “Taliban”.
Ahmadzia Massoud says Karzai is just waiting for the U.S. led occupation forces to leave.
Ahmadzia Massoud is part of a group of Afghans that helped the U.S. commit war crimes at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, such as the murder of truckloads of POWs, who were machine gunned and suffocated while trapped inside cargo containers (known as Dasht-i-Leili massacre).
The group is called National Front of Afghanistan, or Afghanistan National Front (ANF), and includes Mohammad Mohaqiq and Abdul Rashid Dostum.