Badakhshan Province: In Jaram District, Mujahideen say they’ve shot down a helicopter. They say the helicopter turned to return to the Faizabad airbase, but crashed. They say they used a Soviet era DShK heavy machine gun. It fires a 12.7mm (.50 cal) bullet, but the casing is much longer than the standard 12.7mm used in the U.S. M2 (Ma Duce), allowing more gunpowder to give it more range.
Helmand Province: In Sangin District, provincial officials report several days of battles with Mujahideen. At least 20 people killed.
Kabul Province: Kabul Airport, international airlines resume flights after a recent Mujahideen attack. Afghan news media report that the Obama regime presidential candidate puppet Abdullah Abdullah is refusing to take part in the observation of the latest vote recount. This effectively ends the vote recount. Remember, Barack Obama, David Cameron and Ban Ki-moon declared the election a “success”!
Kandahar Province: In Shahwalikot District, reports of U.S./NATO airstrikes. At least nine people killed.
Kunar Province: Claims that Pakistan fired 118 artillery rounds into Afghan territory. No casualties reported, but several houses were destroyed.
Logar Province: The mayor for Mohammad Agha District was assassinated by armed men. His wife and two family members were wounded.
Nuristan Province: In Barg-e-Matal District, government officials report battles with Afghan and Pakistani Mujahideen. At least 30 people killed, including civilians.
Pakistan says one of their soldiers was shot and killed by an Afghan soldier near Ghakhai Pass in Pakistan’s Bajaur Agency.
The U.S. Department of Defense revealed that the U.S. Army’s 101st and 82nd airborne divisions will remain in Afghanistan into 2015.
According to a Colombia University Mailman School of Public Health study, life in the United States has become so bad that it is now more stressful for National Guard members than their time in Afghanistan or Iraq! The researchers tracked militiamen for three years. 60% had combat trauma, 17% were sexually harassed on deployment, but 36% had experienced extreme stress since returning from Iraq or Afghanistan.
In the U.S. state of New York, an Air National Guardsman was killed by being pushed down stairs. It happened in the city of Buffalo, back in May. He had been in a coma, but died on 31 July 2014. He had served in Afghanistan with the 107th Airlift Wing. A man has already been charged with assault, and now will be charged with homicide.
In the U.S. state of Georgia, a National Guardsman is on trial for killing his wife. He claims she was about to kill herself when he tried pulling the gun from her hands. The autopsy showed the woman was shot in the left side of the head, with the bullet exiting on the right side (which is typical for somebody shooting themselves in the head). However, the autopsy doctor says he thinks she was shot by somebody else. The suspect served in Iraq and Afghanistan several times. He has three children.
More than 120 militiamen & women of the Army National Guard’s 2-113th Infantry Battalion (New Jersey U.S.A.) shipping out for Bahrain, in support of operations in Afghanistan. This is on top of the 130 militiamen & women of the 150th Assault Helicopter Battalion who deployed to Kosovo. Some militia members told local news media they were glad to be activated because it means more money for their families, illustrating just how bad the U.S. economy is.
Dyncorp, PAE Government Services Incorporated, KBR and Civilian Police International have all been accused of corruption, tax evasion, human trafficking and torture. Tim Shorrock, a researcher, has found that U.S. military contractors can literally get away with murder and still be awarded more of your tax money: “This is the black hole of contracting. You can pretty much do almost anything and keep your contracts.”
The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says the amount of U.S. taxes given to Afghanistan by the Bush and Obama regimes has exceeded the post World War 2 Marshall Plan, but without the positive results: “SIGAR calculates that by the end of 2014, the United States will have committed more funds to reconstruct Afghanistan, in inflation-adjusted terms, than it spent on 16 European countries after World War II under the Marshall Plan.”