Badakhshan Province: Munjan District, Mujahideen overran the Afghan National Police’s (ANP) district HQ. ANP officials said they abandoned the HQ to “avoid civilian casualties”. ANP claim they recaptured their HQ the next day.
Ghazni Province: Deh Yak District, a van full of adults & children ran over a landmine. Three killed, nine wounded. In Muqur District, a U.S.-NATO air strike (aka weapons release) killed ten people.
Helmand Province: Marja City, a suicide bomber killed himself and one cop. Three people wounded. Two USMC generals were forced to retire early for their lack of competence regarding the September 2012 Muahideen attack on Camp Bastion. A U.S. Marine investigation concluded that the generals “did not take adequate force protection measures within the range of responses proportionate to the threat”.
Herat Province: Mujahideen attacked a local police marital law check point. Nine people killed, three wounded.
Kabul Province: Kabul City, hundreds of protestors demanded the United States get the hell out! Another report, that despite the war luxury home building is skyrocketing in Kabul City. Property developers are taking a big risk, pouring millions of dollars into grand mansions. I wonder where they got the money from? Many of the homes were built in the hopes foreign occupiers would rent them, so property developers are a little worried about the supposed NATO 2014 pullout.
Kandahar Province: Report that a U.S.-NATO drone “weapons release” killed two people.
Logar Province: Mohammad Agha District, a local political candidate was assassinated, along with three local teachers. The district governor was wounded. Police don’t know who did it.
Maidan Wardak Province: Jalriz District, ISAF confirms that a U.S.-NATO drone “weapons release” killed seven people.
Paktia Province: Report that a U.S.-NATO drone “weapons release” killed three people.
Uruzgan Province: A minibus full of passengers drove over a landmine. Two people killed, many wounded.
The Afghan Ministry of the Interior claims 14 Mujahideen killed, three wounded and 12 captured in Faryab, Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktiya and Paktika provinces.
The USAF has reported that U.S.-NATO drone and manned aircraft “weapons releases” (air strikes) in the month of September were about double that of August.
The Afghan news media reported that China is pushing President Hamid Karzai to accept a new military pact with the United States. The bi-lateral agreement is being pushed by the Obama regime as a way of legally keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the 2014 NATO pullout. Karzai continues to insist he’s in no rush to sign such an agreement. U.S. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, is pissed: “I hope we’ll have that agreement by the end of October, because we just can’t move without it.”
In the U.S. state of Oklahoma, the Army National Guard’s 1245th Transportation Company returned home from Afghanistan. Armed Forces Reserve Center officials said the crowd of civilian/family welcomers was the largest ever.
At the United Nations, several Central Asian countries stated that the U.S. instigated instability in Afghanistan is the real threat to global security. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan said it’s all about the Great Game played by western empires, because Central Asia is rich: “The Asian continent is transforming itself into a global power house for the 21st century, with its production of more than 57% of global GDP, and this trend is expected to increase. However, this growth could be jeopardized by an aggravation of existing conflicts, illegal migration, drug trafficking, territorial claims, separatism, religious extremism and terrorism.”-Erlan Idrissov