Farah Province: In Qala Ka District, two road workers were killed when they struck a landmine.
Helmand Province: A 22 years old USMC Sergeant, from the U.S. state of Washington, was shot and killed. The U.S. Department of Defense said they were investigating the incident.
Herat Province: Reports that a female politician in the city of Herat was assassinated. She was shot as she walked home from work.
Kabul Province: The Interior Affairs Ministry of Afghanistan says it will take legal action against the female representative from Ghazni Province, who bitch slapped a cop in front of the Pakistani Embassy.
Logar Province: In Baraki Barak District, a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market. Six people killed, 18 wounded.
Samangan Province: Residents protesting the provincial governor, turned violent after a week of demonstrations. They want him and other politicians to resign on the grounds of corruption. Police fought the protestors, two people killed, at least eight wounded. What anti-corruption protestors in the United States have the guts to mano-a-mano with pro-government cops?
Uruzgan Province: U.S. led Afghan government forces stopped a young man and his aunt as they were riding on a motorcycle. In classic Israeli style, the government forces accused the man of using the motorcycle to traffic explosives and beat him senseless in front of his aunt.
Zabul Province: In Qalat City, one cop killed two wounded when they drove over a landmine.
British empire news media are reporting that the Obama regime is so desperate, that officials with the U.S. Department of Defense are now begging President Hamid Karzai to sign the 2014 Security deal! The Bilateral Security Agreement could see U.S. military personnel incountry for another ten years. Recent surveys show an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens hate the occupation of Afghanistan, even more than the number of U.S. citizens who hated the U.S. occupation of Vietnam.
Pakistan’s new ambassador to the United States, Jalil Abbas Jilani, says the fear of a U.S. pullout is flooding Pakistan with refugees: “Even the talk of U.S. pullout has started having its impact. Pakistan has started to receive more Afghan refugees than before….”
U.S. taxpayers ripped off again! The highly expensive armored car known as MRAP (mine resistant armored patrol vehicles) are being chopped up for scrap in Afghanistan, rather than be shipped back to the United States. U.S. taxpayers forked out $1-million USD for each MRAP! So far, as of October 2013, 938 MRAPs have been scrapped (that’s more than $1-billion worth down the shit hole!).
Snow Leopards are making a comeback despite decades of war among humans. The National Environmental Protection Agency of Afghanistan reports an increase in the number of Snow Leopards being sighted. This seems to coincide with the decline of Snow Leopards further north in Mongolia.
Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing Civil Engineering Squadron, from the U.S. state of Arkansas, returned home from Afghanistan.