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Officials Say 5 Afghan Police, 1 NATO Soldier Killed in Separate Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb killed five Afghan border policemen in southern Afghanistan and other violence was reported in the east where insurgents have stepped up attacks against pro-government forces as spring fighting gets under way, officials said Friday. In other violence across Afghanistan, an insurgent attack left one NATO service member dead in the east, militants in the north attacked a tanker convoy transporting fuel for coalition forces, and the nephew of an Afghan warlord was reportedly killed in fighting southwest of Kabul. The uptick in violence expected with warmer ...
Report: Troop Deaths by IEDs in Afghanistan Up 60 Percent
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe number of American troops in Afghanistan killed by improvised explosive devices rose 60 percent last year to 268, about the same number who perished in the three previous years combined, according to military statistics obtained by The Washington Post. The figures also show that the number of those wounded by the roadside bombs in 2010 nearly tripled, to 3,366. The bombs are the biggest cause of casualties for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The head of a Pentagon agency charged with combating the IEDs, Army Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, noted a recent decline in the percentage of bomb attacks ...
Opinion: Support Your Local Federal Worker
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 21) -- As attacks from makeshift roadside bombs wreaked havoc in Iraq and later in Afghanistan, Teri Glass and colleagues at Fort Detrick in Maryland worked tirelessly to develop a state-of-the-art medical evacuation system that has since helped medics quickly and safely transport wounded soldiers to battlefield hospitals. The effort by Glass and her team, credited with saving countless lives, is just one of many examples of the work done every day by federal civil servants -- successful but often unheralded accomplishments that serve the public good. Amid the heated anti-government ...
Roadside Bombs Less Lethal for Today's Troops
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 20) -- Roadside bomb attacks are still deadly and all-too-common in Afghanistan, but the Pentagon says fewer troops than ever are succumbing to injuries that would have been life-threatening only a few years ago. That's mostly because of better war-zone medical care and quicker transport offered by medevac helicopters, according to a new report issued by Defense Department officials. In September, attacks from 180 improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, killed 24 American troops, compared with 46 troops killed by 131 IEDs during September 2009. In 2008, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ...
Afghan President Confirms Talks With Taliban
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed in a U.S. TV interview that his government has been holding informal talks with the Taliban "for quite some time" in an effort to end the 9-year-old war. "We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman," Karzai told CNN's Larry King, in an interview being broadcast tonight. "Not as a regular official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address but rather unofficial personal contacts have been going on for quite some time." The president made the announcement after being asked about a report in The Washington Post ...
5 US Troops Killed by Roadside Bomb in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 31) -- Five U.S. troops were killed by roadside bombs and insurgent fire in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody spell that has left 19 service members dead since Saturday. Meanwhile, on the southern outskirts of the capital, Kabul, a gunman opened fire on a busload of Afghan Supreme Court clerks, killing three and wounding 12, the Interior Ministry reported. Assailants on two motorcycles halted the bus Tuesday morning in the Musayi district, an area where insurgents are active, court spokesman Abdul Malik Kamawi ...
8 US Troops Killed in Wave of Afghan Attacks
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 14) -- Eight U.S. troops have been killed over the past 24 hours in Afghanistan after a barrage of attacks by insurgents, NATO and Afghan officials said today. The carnage began late Tuesday night, The Associated Press reports, when the Taliban unleashed a suicide car bomber, rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire on an elite police station in restive southern Afghanistan, killing three U.S. troops and five Afghan civilians. Four more troops died today when a roadside bomb exploded, the AP said, and a fifth died after a gun battle. The complex and apparently well-planned ...
Roadside Bomb Kills 4 US Troops in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL (Jan. 4) -- A roadside bombing killed four U.S. service members, the first American combat deaths of the year in Afghanistan, while a British soldier died during a foot patrol elsewhere in the volatile south of the country, officials said Monday. A statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the explosion that killed the U.S. service members took place Sunday in the south, but did not give further details on the location or the victims' branch of service. The deaths are the first U.S. fatalities from hostile action in Afghanistan this year. One U.S. service ...
Roadside Bomb Hunting: Learned Skill or Intuition?
By David Wood - Politics DailyIt was dusk and just over 100 degrees as the truck convoy designated Dagger Three Seven snaked past concrete barriers and coils of razor wire and crept onto a road pocked with scars where previous convoys had been hit with IEDs. Our gun truck was escorting two dozen tractor trailers carrying food, ammo, and spare parts from an air base to an outlying post, and to make sure we got there OK, Army Specialist Francisco B. Fimbres was up in the turret, sweeping the landscape with eagle eyes. Left ... front ... right ... front ... left. ...
From Hollywood Fantasy to the Medical Fast Track
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 21) -- The Department of Defense has announced plans to fast-track face transplant surgery, with a $3.4 million grant for surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An estimated 200 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are candidates for the procedure; better body armor and trauma care mean more troops survive the frequent roadside-bomb attacks that are a grim fixture of modern war – but return permanently disfigured. The grant means that face transplants could move from obscure science to clinical medical practice within two years. Brigham surgeons hope to operate on six ...
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