Helmand Province: A former British Army captain, and now Doctor of History, Mike Martin, spent six years studying U.S./U.K. led NATO ops in the province.  His conclusion was that ignorance of Afghanistan’s history resulted in NATO military ops actually making life worse for Afghans. Martin said war lords took advantage of the U.S. occupation to wage war on their personal enemies and strengthen their positions.  Gee, that’s exactly what happened under the Soviet occupation, I though we in the West were smarter than that!  You mean our exalted ‘elected’ officials are just as stupid as the old soviet leaders who occupied Afghanistan from 1979-89?   Martin’s book is called An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict 1978-2012, and is an official King’s College in London publication.  The British Ministry of Defence is trying to block the publication of the book.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, a police vehicle ran over a landmine, killing one cop and wounding three.

Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, a NATO convoy was hit by a car bomber.  NATO and Afghan government officials refused to release any details.   In the same district, a mini-bus ran over a landmine, killing all 15 civilians onboard.  Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) admitted they kidnapped 86 men in the province.  A U.S. Army Captain from South Carolina was killed, supposedly in a “non-hostile” incident.

Kunar Province: Afghan government officials claim they killed 29 Afghan and Pakistani Mujahideen by calling in two U.S. drone strikes over two days.

Pakistan claims 12 mortar rounds were fired from Afghanistan into Zoya-ba village.   No reports of casualties.

While the Obama regime is calling the Afghan elections a success, the Afghan Defense Ministry reported at least 690 attacks.   General Zahir Azimi says about 170 people were killed, at least 100 wounded.  If Obama considers such violence to be a sign of success, then people of the United States are lagging behind!

Afghanistan’s Independent Electoral Complaints Commission reports at least 1269 complaints of election fraud, during this latest “democratic” elections.  211 voting stations were actually closed during the elections.

In the past the evil U.S. Agency for International Development swore to the U.S. Congress that it “made 333 recommendations on how to mitigate the risk” of corruption by Afghan agencies.  Then they admitted that they were imposing only 24 of those recommendations on Afghan agencies.  However, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, John F. Sopko, discovered that not only are they not imposing any recommendations, but that “USAID admitted to auditors that Afghanistan is the only country in the world where it waived its own strict internal policies before providing such direct assistance.”  As a result, USAID can’t account for at least $17-billion USD spent in Afghanistan, so far.

250 air-militiamen of the Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing (South Carolina) returned from Afghanistan.

950 militiamen of Oregon’s National Guard scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan this year.  Now, 18 anti-war groups have petitioned the state’s Governor to stop the deployments: “…as Commander in Chief of the Guard, keep our men and women home to aid in search and rescue, firefighting, and other important functions that are not possibly in violation of international law.”