Farah Province: In Khak-e-Safid District, a civilian vehicle ran over a landmine, killing four and wounding five.
Ghazni Province: 25 teachers and ten students at the university were kidnapped.
Helmand Province: In Sangin District, government officials claim five Mujahideen blew themselves up while planting landmines (this scenario seems to happening more and more).
Herat Province: The U.S. Department of Defense, and Colorado State University, are spending your tax money to buy Italian goats for Afghan ranchers: “What we’ve done is set this farm up to be something which is sustainable by the private sector. Ideally, what we would like to see is the markets to open up to Afghan cashmere. We’ve seen the change happening already, but we’d like to see it come around full circle for a fully revitalised industry in Afghanistan, where the cashmere is leaving Afghanistan as Afghan-branded cashmere.”-Benjamin Kolendar, Task Force for Business and Stability Operations
Kabul Province: In Kabul City, the convoy of Obama’s puppet candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, was attacked by two explosions. Six people killed, 22 wounded, yet Obama’s puppet survived. It’s being blamed on Pakistan. Afghan Ministry of Defense reports hundreds of people killed and wounded in ongoing operations. They include Afghan government forces, Mujahideen and militants from Pakistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his re-election victory.
Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, a car bomb exploded next to an Afghan National Army vehicle. Five ANA soldiers wounded.
Khost Province: In Alisher District, two Pakistani F-16s crossed into Afghan airspace.
Kunar Province: In Shegal District, provincial officials claim Pakistan fired 32 artillery rounds into their province. In Khas Kunar District, a U.S.-NATO airstrike killed at least ten people, including Pakistanis.
Logar Province: A U.S. Army Specialist from California was killed. There is confusion as to how he died. Officially the U.S. Department of Defense said it was a “non-hostile” incident, but, the father of the soldier swears his son was actually in Zabul Province, where he was killed in a U.S. airstrike. In Mohammad Agha District, eight members of the NGO Mine Detection Center were executed by men with guns.
Nangarhar Province: In Lal Pur District, officials claim Pakistan fired artillery rounds into their province, killing one person and wounding several others. In Behsud District, a police station was attacked. Two of the attackers were killed. One cop killed and 25 vehicles destroyed. In Jalalabad City, a court house was attacked. Three attackers killed during the two hours long battle.
Nuristan Province: There are reports that masked Pakistani Mujahideen crossed into the province and hanged 12 Afghan Mujahideen, for failure to follow their orders. However, Afghan Mujahideen say what really happened was that they caught Afghan government spys trying to infiltrate their group. The people executed were Afghan government spys.
Zabul Province: Four U.S. Army and one U.S. Marine personnel were killed by a U.S. airstrike. An Afghan interpreter was also killed. The U.S. unit got pinned down by a Mujahideen ambush and called in the airstrike. The family of one of the killed soldiers said the U.S. Army woke them up in the middle of the night to tell them the bad news.
Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of being behind the recent attack on Karachi airport.
In a hint that the United States is now a combat zone, a recent Defense Videos & Imagery Distribution System (dvids) report stated that “…the 216th Engineer Company, California National Guard, and the 849th Eng. Company, Minnesota National Guard, redeployed to U.S. soil….” RE-deployed? The units specialize in looking for bombs, and have returned from Afghanistan.
Dvids has also been reporting that more and more National Guard units are undergoing “IED warfare” training, despite claims that the U.S. is pulling out of Afghanistan.
In the U.S. state of Oklahoma, a highly decorated Afghan veteran and National Guard combat medic is now charged with murdering his uncle.
Two units of the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (Guam) ended their tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The National Guard’s Operation Support Airlift Command Detachment 6 (Connecticut) deployed to Afghanistan.