Baghlan Province:  In Burka District, a provincial official for Kunduz Province was assassinated.  The Kunduz official actually lived in Baghlan Province.  He was kidnapped, and there were reports from his family that a ransom was demanded, but nobody ever made a public claim regarding the official’s disappearance.

Balkh Province: In Mazar-e-Sharif City, a suicide bomber tried to kill the deputy governor.  The deputy governor was not hurt, but at least one person was killed and four others wounded.

Ghazni Province: A suicide car bomber tried to attack an Afghan National Army convoy.  His car blew up before reaching the target.

Helmand Province: In Marja District, the local police chief was assassinated when Mujahideen ambushed his vehicle.  His bodyguard was wounded.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, two cops killed by “remote controlled improvised explosive device”.  Police say it was a set up because the cops were on their way to investigate a claim about a bomb, when they were hit with the homemade remote bomb.

Kandahar Province: A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (E6) from Texas was killed by Mujahideen. ISAF officials say he was killed by a “improvised explosive device attack”.  Also, construction workers involved in building police state checkpoints are being assassinated.  The bodies of at least six contractors were found, minus their heads.  In Arghistan District, two children killed when the vehicle they were in ran over a landmine.  Local police did not give any details about the adult passengers.  In Kandahar City, a restaurant was bombed.  At least three people killed, 22 wounded.  Local cops say it was done by a suicide bomber.

Paktika Province: In Khair Kot District, this time it was government forces that planted explosives which killed children.  Several days prior Mujahideen forced government forces to retreat from their police state checkpoints.  During the retreat the government forces booby trapped their checkpoint with explosives. Days later seven children were killed and two wounded when they  entered the checkpoint compound to scavenge scrap metal.   Initially the Afghan government blamed the explosions on Mujahideen.

Zabul Province: Provincial police report that several cops were beheaded by unknown assailants.  Zabul officials say at first the dead cops were thought to be civilians, because they were in their civis (old U.S. military slang for civilian clothes, which comes from the Latin word for civilian).  Zabul officials also suspect that some of the beheaded victims found in Kandahar are Zabul cops, who are still missing.  Provincial officials also reported that an explosion killed two children, and wounded two adults.

The Afghan government claims to have killed at least 40 Mujahideen over this four day period.  That’s actually a big drop from past battle reports.

The United Nations is claiming that so far this year as many as 12-thousand Mujahideen have been killed or captured.  Mmmm, yet attacks by Mujahideen are only increasing.  UN officials admitted that their number of killed or captured was only an “estimate”.

A study by the Chatham House, in United Kingdom, concluded that the British empire’s role in the invasions and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq “….was of disorder and incoherence, informality and individuality.”  In U.S. military slang it is a “cluster fuck”!