Baghlan Province: In Dand-e-Ghori District, a man and woman in their 20s were executed for having sex outside of marriage. Western Christians shouldn’t be too shocked, unless they are ignorant of their own history. There was a time in the Christian West when people who had sex outside marriage could be killed.
Kandahar Province: In Shorabak District, an Afghan border cop turned his gun on fellow cops, killing two of them. The shooter escaped.
Khost Province: In Khost City two explosions killed Afghan National Army and Police personnel. The first explosion killed one ANA soldier and wounded three others. The second explosion occurred when ANP forces were investigating the first explosion. Three cops and seven civilians were wounded in the second explosion.
Nangarhar Province: In Shirzad District, seven people were killed inside a Mosque when a bomb exploded. Interior Ministry officials claim they were all suicide bombers! Government officials implied that religious establishments are being used to make bombs. In Jalalabad City, an explosion killed two civilians and wounded one cop.
Takhar Province: A provincial government official was assassinated by explosion. A remote controlled bomb was planted in his car.
Uruzgan Province: Two health care workers were hanged after they took part in a vaccination program in Khush Qadeer village. No clue as to who did it.
According to local news reports, The national grand council (Loya Jirga) has agreed to give U.S. troops, stationed in Afghanistan after the supposed 2014 pullout, legal immunity from any crimes they commit! It is known as Article 13 of the Obama regime’s bilateral security agreement. The Loya Jirga also wants the ‘peace’ deal with the Obama regime signed before the end of the Gregorian year 2013.
What was that about farmers can’t make money unless they grow opium? A new business just started up in Afghanistan, called FINEST (aka The Finest Group). It promotes agricultural products grown in Afghanistan. Company officials claim they will mobilize food crop production from 100-thousand Afghan farmers.
Army National Guard 878th Engineer Battalion, from the U.S. state of Georgia, returned home from Afghanistan.
Army National Guard 833rd Engineer Company, from the U.S. state of Iowa, returned home from Afghanistan. According to local news reports they are the last Iowa Guard unit to return from the Central Asian country. The father of one returning militia man says he feels betrayed by the Obama regime’s bilateral security agreement, which keeps U.S. forces in Afghanistan past the 2014 pullout: “I was just blown away that they would actually do that after basically promising that after 2014 that nobody would be there in Afghanistan.”-Justin Enderson Senior
Army National Guard 129th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, from the U.S. state of South Dakota, returned from Afghanistan.
Army National Guard 3-238th General Support Aviation Battalion, from the U.S. state of Delaware, deployed to Kuwait. Their primary job will be transporting military personnel to and from areas of the Middle East and Afghanistan. The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded Exelis Systems $463.1 million USD contract for base security in Kuwait (on top of the $1.27 billion the contractor has already received from U.S. taxpayers). It’s part of the U.S. build up in the Persian Gulf country.
Several Guard units from other U.S. states are deployed to Kuwait. The Kuwaiti government has been helping to fund the U.S. backed civil war in Syria.