Faryab Province: In Qaisar District, battles raging between Mujahideen and government forces. The provincial governor says hundreds of Mujahideen are trying to take control of the district, and have captured at least two police FOBs (Forward Operating Base). At least 25 people killed, 17 wounded.
Ghazni Province: A U.S. Army soldier caught a disease and was shipped back to the Fort Sam Houston hospital in Texas U.S.A., where he died.
Helmand Province: A kamikaze car bomber rammed a Afghan National Police (ANP) convoy, killing himself and two cops. 15 people wounded. In Sangin District, at least 15 people killed by U.S./NATO airstrike. In Garamser District, four people killed by U.S. drone strike.
Herat Province: A U.S. led NATO/ISAF transport plane made a “precautionary” landing, and overran the runway. No casualties reported, and no explanation for the “precautionary” landing. Flights at the airport were canceled. Two healthcare NGO employees from Finland were killed when the taxi they were in was attacked by men on motorcycles.
Kabul Province: The national Traffic Department is reporting huge monetary losses, due to people being afraid of the number 39! People are refusing to register their vehicles because they were being issued license plates with the number 39 on it! There was no explanation why 39 is such a feared number. In Kabul City, a kamikaze motorcycle bomber attacked Camp Gibson. U.S. officials would only say that five foreign contracted security guards (mercenaries) were killed. A rocket landed in the compound of an Afghan military school, but no casualties reported. Once again, the Interior Ministry reports that across Afghanistan hundreds of people killed or wounded in the past four days of battles with Mujahideen.
Kandahar Province: In Mirugol Kalay, two U.S. Army personnel blown up and killed by Mujahideen. One of the soldiers was on his 3rd tour of duty. 20 militia men and women of Utah’s Army National Guard celebrated the Mormon Pioneer Days. Pioneer Days is presented in some parts of the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. as celebrating pioneers in general, but it’s really about the Mormon Exodus from Missouri into what would become the Utah territory. The guardsmen kept their celebration to BBQ, and left the signature hand pulled carts in Utah. The U.S. Army shutdown their FOB Walton. Some of the taxpayer funded equipment went to Afghanistan: “We had all of this excess equipment, so we had to really coordinate with our Afghan partners and decide what we were going to do with all of it. We used groups like the Defense Logistics Agency and others like it to decide what we were going to sell to the Afghans, what to throw away, and what the unit needed to bring back home.”-Captain Bernard Tumanjong
Kunduz Province: A kamikaze bomber attacked the home of the police chief for Chahar Dara District. The bomber was killed along with one cop. The police boss and two other cops were wounded.
Laghman Province: In Alingar District, a cop and five other people were killed when a vehicle was ambushed.
Logar Province: In Pul-e-Alam City, six people killed by explosion. Local police claim they were Mujahideen blown up while making bombs.
Nangarhar Province: In Khogyani District, a kamikaze bomber killed two cops and wounded one.
Paktika Province: In Sorubi District, five people killed by landmine explosion. Local police say the victims were Mujahideen making bombs in their home.
Takhar Province: In Khawajah Ghar District, a motorcycle bomb exploded in a market killing nine people and wounding 27.
Al Jazeera news reports they’ve confirmed that U.S. funded local provincial police (aka Afghan Local Police, ALP) and pro-government militias (aka Arbaki) are systematically killing anybody who refuses to help them fight Mujahideen, including children. I’ve been reporting that for years now.
The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) discovered that tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars meant to be used to build trash incinerators on U.S. bases in Afghanistan were totally wasted. The incinerators were supposed to safely burn toxic waste, but a SIGAR inspection discovered they don’t! Not only were U.S. taxes wasted, but military personnel have been subjected to years of toxic smoke! The investigation also revealed that U.S. military units were disobeying Pentagon orders banning open bit trash burning! U.S. military units also violated a 2010 U.S. law requiring the notification whenever toxic waste was burned: “When you burn this caustic, dangerous stuff, it can release neurotoxins, carcinogens. There are long term health effects. This is a ticking time bomb here that could last for years.”-Anthony Szema, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
150 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 124th Engineer Company (South Carolina U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.