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9 Americans Dead After Afghan Army Officer Opens Fire
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight American troops and a U.S. contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport - the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials said. The Afghan officer, who was a veteran military pilot, fired on the Americans after an argument, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. All nine killed were American, according to a senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information has not yet been made public. Musadeq Sadeq, ...
Afghan Forces Recapture at Least 65 From Taliban Jailbreak
By not in system - AOL NewsKANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan forces have recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the south's largest prison, the government said Tuesday as it scrambled to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 inmates to be spirited out in a stunning jailbreak. Prison officials discovered early Monday morning that the convicts - nearly all of them Taliban militants - were missing from their cells, and then found the tunnel through which they appeared to have made their getaway. The Taliban said the prison break was five months in the making, with diggers starting the ...
NATO: Key al-Qaida Figure Killed in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike earlier this month killed a key al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan - a regional commander in charge of suicide bombings and cash flow, the international military coalition said Tuesday. NATO identified the man killed in the April 13 airstrike in Dangam district of eastern Kunar province as Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani. The alliance said the strike also killed a number of other insurgents, including another al-Qaida leader known as Waqas. Al-Najdi, a Saudi citizen, directed al-Qaida operations in Kunar and traveled regularly between ...
Taliban Break at Least 480 Out of Afghan Prison
By not in system - AOL NewsKANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants tunneled at least 480 inmates out of the main prison in southern Afghanistan overnight, whisking them through a 1,000-foot-long underground passage they had dug over months, officials and insurgents said Monday. Officials at Saraposa prison in the city of Kandahar only discovered the breach about 4 a.m., about a half hour after the Taliban said they had gotten all the prisoners out. Allauddin Khan, AP Afghan policemen stand in front of the gate of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, on Monday. Taliban insurgents dug a ...
12 Iranian Engineers Kidnapped in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran -- Armed assailants kidnapped 12 Iranian engineers building a road in western Afghanistan, said Iranian and Afghan officials Monday. Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the Iranian engineers were working for a construction company in the western Farah Province and the incident was under investigation by Iranian and Afghan authorities. Militants in the area claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and threatened to kill the hostages if work on the road is not halted, said Gen. Sayed Mohammad, the police chief for Farah province. "For the time being the road ...
AP: Terror Suspects Held for Weeks in Secret Jails
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- The CIA's infamous secret network of "black site" interrogation centers is gone. But suspected terrorists in Afghanistan are being held and interrogated for weeks at temporary sites, including one run by the elite special operations forces at Bagram Air Base, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the detention network to The Associated Press. The Pentagon has previously denied operating secret jails in Afghanistan, although human rights groups and former detainees have described the facilities. U.S. military and other government officials confirmed that the ...
UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of the compound in northern Afghanistan. Eric Kanalstein, UNAMA / AP In this photo taken Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, UN personnel carry the casket of one of seven colleagues killed in an attack on the UN operations center in Mazar-i-Sharif on ...
Afghan Riots Over Quran-Burning Leave 20 Dead in 2 Days
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans rioted for a second day Saturday to protest the burning of a Quran in Florida, killing nine people in Kandahar and injuring more than 80 in a wave of violence that underscored rising anti-foreign sentiment after nearly a decade of war. The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan it further strained ties with the West. On Friday, 11 people were killed, including seven foreign U.N. employees, in a protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Mustafa Najafizada, AP An Afghan policeman walks past a burned ...
Taliban Claim to Have Kidnapped 50 Afghan Police
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed Sunday that it kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in northeastern Afghanistan -- part of the insurgents' murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the U.S.-backed government. Also Sunday, a NATO service member was killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said. No details were released about the death, which raised to 94 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year. Militants ambushed the policemen Saturday afternoon after being tipped off that they would be traveling in Kunar ...
Sauce for the Troops Sends Soldiers a Tangy Taste of Home
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsTheirs is a tale of friendship and food: bad food made good, hot coffee, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and, most of all, barbecue sauce. Reverend Marvin's Gourmet BBQ Sauce. Original and Hot. David Boyd and Woody Lynch, now sitting near the midcentury mark, have known each other since college days. Thanks to Facebook, the buddies stayed in touch while Lynch ran his advertising business in Florence, S.C., and Boyd served two tours of National Guard duty in Afghanistan, most recently in 2010. wmbfnews.com David Boyd and the barbecue sauce that brought a taste of home to Camp Phoenix in ...
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