May 17, 2012, the governor’s office in Afghanistan’s Farah Province has been attacked by suicide bombers.  As many as 11 people killed.

Reports say that after the explosions there was a two hour firefight between Mujahideen and Afghan forces.  At least nine people were wounded.  The dead include Mujahideen, police and civilians. The governor somehow survived the attack.

An Afghan national army soldier was killed when Mujahideen attacked in Badakhshan Province.

Two Afghan national army soldiers were wounded in Kunar Province.  Another soldier wounded in Helmand Province.

A Scottish soldier, on trial in the United Kingdom for killing a fellow soldier in 2009, stated that he had never been trained for night fighting.  But get this, he swears that the people he was shooting at were digging by a road, as if they were planting mines in the middle of the night. In fact his fellow soldiers thought they were the enemy as well: “We were all in agreement that there were insurgents laying or arming an IED in the road.”-Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard

Turned out those suspected Mujahideen were really British troops!  What are British troops doing digging by the road at night?

U.S./NATO forces have killed civilians yet again.  Reports out of Afghanistan are confusing, but sometime in the past week an airstrike killed five civilians and wounded two others.  It included women and children.  The attack took place in Kunar Province, and ISAF originally reported four Mujahideen killed.

But from the beginning locals said most of those killed were women and children. The U.S./NATO attack took place just days after NATO apologized for killing civilians the week before.

According to the United Nations, the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan hit a record high of 3,021 in 2011.  So much for the U.S. occupation making Afghanistan more secure!

24 hour, ISAF Joint Command Morning operational update for May 17, 2012: More seek & capture missions for “leaders” and “facilitators”, in the provinces of Paktika, Paktia, Kunduz, Kandahar and Helmand.  They claim “several” Mujahideen captured.

In Paktia Province, Afghan and occupying forces came under heavy attack and called in airstrikes. International Security Assistance Force claims “multiple” Mujahideen killed/captured.

In Helmand Province ISAF reports yet more drugs busted; 1,130 kilograms (2,480 pounds) of opium.  Unlike previous drug busts where everything is supposedly destroyed, U.S./NATO troops decided that “A portion of the cache was confiscated for analysis…”

To show that ISAF’s 24 hour report is not up to date, they reported the end of a 10 day search & capture offensive in Farah Province.  The operation ended on May 13, and resulted in Mujahideen captured, along with weapons and drugs. (this is the same province that just had the governor’s compound attacked)