Faryab Province: In Khwajah Gawhar District, a Mujahideen leader was executed by Mujahideen. Afghan National Army officials say they don’t know the specific reason why, but suspect he was accused of working with the government before he was hanged.
Ghazni Province: In Andar district, at least 11 people killed, four wounded, after U.S.-NATO airstrike.
Herat Province: In Islam Qala town, a motorcycle bomb went off by a Mosque, then, as police gathered to investigate a second bomb exploded. One cop killed, at least four wounded.
Kabul Province: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan released the final vote count from the fraudulent elections. None of the candidates got the required minimum number of votes to be declared a winner. A second election is on hold until the IEC can get enough voting materials together. Apparently all that tax money spent by other countries to prepare for the elections wasn’t enough for a surprise second election.
Kandahar Province: In Maruf District, government officials are reporting battles between Afghan and Pakistani border police. At least one Afghan border cop killed. In Arghandab District, a policeman killed four of his family members, then killed his police boss as he arrived to investigate. The renegade cop was then killed by other cops. Police also shot and killed a man, then claimed he was a suicide bomber. In Shahwali Kot District, four cops have been sentenced to death for murdering three civilians. The cops claim they were hired by the victims’ own families to assassinate them.
Kunduz Province: A diplomat from Tajikistan was wounded after unknown gunmen attacked his vehicle. In Khas Kunar District, one student killed, two wounded by explosion.
Nangarhar Province: In Ghani Khel District, an explosion killed one person and wounded 27 others.
Parwan Province: U.S. Obama regime personnel released ten Pakistani prisoners from the U.S. Bagram prison. According to the Justice Project Pakistan the men were held for several years without trial, and are now in Pakistan.
Takhar Province: In Bahauddin District, a suicide bomber using a motorcycle bomb attacked an Afghan National Police convoy. One person dead, 12 wounded.
Afghan religious leader Ayatullah Mohaghegh Kabul says Iran is paying Afghan refugees, living in Iran, $500 per month plus legal residency if they fight against Obama regime backed insurgents in Syria. He claims the bodies of so called Iranian fighters in Syria are actually Afghans. The Afghan government is investigating.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Perry Aston.
Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation confirmed they are delivering 30 Mil Mi-17B-5 gunships to Afghanistan by the end of 2014. It’s part of a new deal signed with the U.S. Department of Defense at the end of 2013.
Russia wants to establish an international anti-drug headquarters in Afghanistan, since Afghanistan is now the number one source of opium ever since the U.S. invaded: “We suggest the creation of an international headquarter or an office for combating the planetary center of drug production in Afghanistan. The goal of the HQ would be to consolidate the currently separate anti-narcotic programs in Afghanistan and to create an effective, internationally-supervised mechanism to eradicated drug production.” Viktor Ivanov, Russian Federal Drug Control Service
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John Sopko, said the Obama regime plans on spending $10-billion of your tax dollars every year in Afghanistan, after the supposed 2014 pullout!
A 19 years old U.S. Army Specialist from California serving in Jordan, in support of operations in Afghanistan, has died of “non-hostile” causes. However, it turns out he was indeed shot. The U.S. Army says they are investigating.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the U.S. Department of Defense lies about how many personnel have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in Iraq and Afghanistan. The study was published in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and says TBI is actually five times higher than what the DoD reports! The researchers suggest one reason for the under-reporting is to deny veterans health care through the Veterans Affairs.