06 June 2013/27 Rajab 1434/16 Khordad 1391/28 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
In Helmand Province, Nawzad District, seven Georgian ISAF troops killed, nine wounded by suicide bomber.
In Uruzgan Province, an Australian Special Operations Task Group Digger was shot and wounded while on a “disruption operation”. Digger officials are investigating if the gunshot was intentional or accidental. They claim Disruption Operations help keep civilians safe!
In Herat Province, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) reported that 366 civilians were killed in the first two months of 2013. That’s a 10% increase from the same time in 2012.
In Sar-e Pol Province, Sar-e Pol city, a hotel was bombed. At least one person killed, 15 wounded.
In Kunar Province, Manogi District, local government officials say U.S./ISAF carried out a night time drone strike. Three children killed, two women wounded. ISAF outright denied the provincial government claims: “This claim is not true. ISAF takes allegations of civilian causalities very seriously. We do not have any operational reporting that supports these allegation that civilians were killed in Kunar province.”
The U.S. state of New Jersey welcomed home 135 members of the 508th Military Police Company, Army National Guard.
05 June 2013/26 Rajab 1434/15 Khordad 1391/27 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
In Paktika Province, Gayan District, Mujahideen claim they killed five NATO/ISAF troops, and wounded four others in an ambush on the NATO/ISAF convoy. Three armored vehicles destroyed.
In Helmand Province, Sangin District, two explosions killed six people.
In Uruzgan Province, Char Chino District, people living in the Khod area claim Australian ISAF troops launched a heliborne assault on their village. Five villagers were assassinated by the Diggers. (is this what the Diggers call “disruption operations”?)
In Maiden Wardak Province, Maidan Shar city, hundreds of Afghans protested U.S. Special Operations Forces kidnapping, torture and murder operations. This after a mass grave was found near an abandoned U.S. SOF base, and an Afghan National Army (ANA) officer was arrested for his role. Reports say local cops open fired on the protestors, killing three and wounding two.
NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, says NATO is getting prepared for a new mission in Afghanistan after 2014.
04 June 2013/25 Rajab 1434/14 Khordad 1391/26 Wu-Wu (4th month) 4711
In Helmand Province, three ANA troops killed when they drove over a landmine.
In Farah Province, Lash Wa Juwayn District, a father and his three kids killed when they drove over a landmine. The mother survived but is seriously wounded.
In Maiden Wardak Province, an ANA colonel was arrested for his connection to U.S. SOF personnel torturing and murdering Afghans in Nerkh District. Several days prior a mass grave was found at an abandoned U.S. special operations base.
In Uruzgan Province, it was revealed that the Australian army has been holding Afghans prisoner in a secret prison on their Tarin Kowt military base. Afghan legal officials say the prisoners have never been charged with any crime and are calling the Digger run prison “illegal”.
The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs is urging Afghans to stop entering Iran illegally. More and more Afghans have been flooding into Iran, illegally, in search of jobs and security. However, Iranian border guards have shot and killed many Afghans, mainly because of illegal drug trafficking. Iranians say not only is opium being smuggled in, but the U.S. drug meth as well.