Badakhshan Province: A major battle in Wardooj District resulted in at least 23 Afghan National Police (ANP) being killed, and 21 wounded. This is from official ANP reports. Mujahideen claim another 24 cops switched sides and joined them. ANP officials say the Mujahideen kidnapped them.
Helmand Province: In Khanshin District dozens of ANP turned their guns on each other after an argument. Three killed, seven wounded. In Lashkargah city, a NATO-ISAF convoy was hit with a remote detonated land mine. The report was made by local police.
Sar-e-Pul Province: A former police commander, as well as being a former senator in the Afghan parliament, has officially joined the Mujahideen. Dozens of other people in the province joined the Mujahideen as well.
Kunar Province: In Chapa Dara District a U.S. drone strike killed at least six people. U.S. officials claim they were all militants (as usual). An investigation into a U.S. drone strike in the same province the week before revealed that women and children were killed. It is official U.S. policy to label anyone killed in an airstrike a militant.
Maidan Wardak Province: Local government officials say a U.S. led raid on a grade school killed a teenaged student in Syedabad District. Several students were wounded. There are also reports that a U.S. drone strike killed seven people and wounded several others.
Uruzgan Province: In Char Chino District Mujahideen ambushed a Australian Digger patrol. At least three Diggers wounded. Australian Defence Force officials confirmed the attack.
Faryab Province: In Qaisar District a battle between Afghan government forces and Mujahideen resulted in several Mujahideen killed and wounded. But it also forced the government personnel to retreat from Nawabad village. Reports say villagers were also killed.
Kunduz Province: The independent election commission boss was assassinated. Police don’t know who did it.
Nangarhar Province: An ANP district boss was fired after an investigation revealed he was terrifying the local population with his authority. Specifically, he was trying to influence how people will vote in the 2014 elections.
Paktika Province: Police arrested a suspect in the assassination of a Indian woman who wrote a book about repression of women in Afghanistan. Police say the suspect claims he is a Mujahid, however, the main Mujahideen group in Afghanistan denies they had anything to do with it: “We reject claims that Mujahideen were involved in the killing of the Indian woman. It is a propaganda by government officials to defame the Mujahideen.”
Kabul Province: In Kabul city an explosion destroyed a police vehicle. Police say it was a magnetic bomb, no person was hurt.
Kandahar Province: The fast food bazaar known as Kandahar Airfield Boardwalk, is being closed down. The Boardwalk was built to provide U.S.-NATO personnel with access to U.S. fast food restaurants, as well as Canadian and European restaurants and retailers, it’s being closed in anticipation of the supposed 2014 pullout. The question is, was the Boardwalk built with tax dollars, for the benefit of U.S., Canadian and European corporations?
Pakistan says Afghan border patrol troops shot and killed five Pakistanis, and wounded three others.
In an example of hypocrisy, Afghan government officials accused Pakistan of being a safe haven for illegal drugs production.
A USA Today report said the $3 billion USD cost of returning U.S. military equipment to the United States, is “cheap”. However, a McClatchy report said it will actually cost U.S. taxpayers $7 billion!
A report by The Nation shows the U.S. military round-a-boutly acknowledges killing innocents, in the form of payments to the surviving family members. However, officially the payments are called “assistance” and U.S. officials continue to deny innocent people are being killed. ISAF keeps no records of such assistance payments. The Nation acquired a 1-thousand page CentCom report, through the Freedom of Information Act, which shows that between 2008 and 2011 massive amounts of assistance payments were made, however, the exact amount is not known because military officials redacted that info. Taxpayers should be pissed off, because these tax dollar funded “assistance” payments are the result of tax dollar paid military and contractor personnel killing innocent people!
According to Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, at this point in the game, the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is costing taxpayers $6 trillion! So far, taxpayers have paid for only $260 billion in interest payments on the war debt! Who ever thinks war is good for the economy is a fool (or involved in the military industrial complex)!
Stars and Stripes reporting that a new USAF Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility is being built at a secret location in the Middle East. It will be used as a medical “hub” for U.S. personnel wounded in Afghanistan after the supposed 2014 pullout!