Ghazni Province:  In Ghazni City, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a police van.  The bomber, two cops and four civilians were killed.

Helmand Province: An investigation by Afghan Military Police  has discovered a U.S./U.K. run prison.  U.S. officials are refusing comment.  The Afghan investigation was launched by outgoing President Hamid Karzai.

Kabul Province: Another person has been arrested trying to smuggle out heroin through the Kabul airport.  This time two kilograms were bound for India.

Kandahar Province: In Takht-e Pol District,  at least five British special ops Red Coats were killed after Mujahideen blasted their Lynx helicopter out of the sky.  The Red Coats say the ‘copter crashed by “accident”, but numerous villagers talking to local news media say they watched the Mujahideen shoot it down.  Back at the beginning of April the United Kingdom declared an end to their combat ops in Afghanistan.  However, the Red Coats just killed were conducting combat ops against Mujahideen after a U.S./U.K.-NATO drone was shot down in neighboring Kunar Province.   An investigation by Afghan Military Police has discovered a U.S./U.K. run prison (see above). U.S. officials are refusing comment. The Afghan investigation was launched by outgoing President Hamid Karzai.  It’s starting to look like the delayed U.S. handover of Bagram prison to Afghan officials was a delaying tactic to allow the U.S. and U.K. to move prisoners to new secret prisons.

Kunar Province:  Afghan government officials say a U.S. drone they called in for an airstrike has crashed.  U.S. officials refuse comment.  Mujahideen say they shot it down (see above).  Also, in Dangam District, officials say Pakistan fired 18 artillery rounds into the district.  No casualties reported, but villagers report property damage.

Zabul Province: In Qalat City, a motorcycle bomb exploded, killing one civilian and one soldier.  Six civilians wounded, five soldiers wounded.

The so called “successful” Afghan elections (declared so by Obama and the UN) is going to a second round of voting.  Election officials say a candidate must have a majority of votes to win, and none do at this point.  It’s interesting to note that the two top vote getters are pro-Obama Abdullah Abdullah, and former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.  Totally rigged!

The Afghan Parliament is refusing to pass a foreign written mining law, that would protect foreign mining companies operating in Afghanistan.  The law was part of an agreement made at the Tokyo Conference.  The passage of the law was required for continued foreign aid, in other words your tax funded foreign aid to Afghanistan is nothing more than a bribe.

For more proof that international efforts in Afghanistan is not about helping people, growing numbers of Afghan refugees are now protesting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for refusing to help them.   In Turkey, Afghan refugees are in their 11th day of protest in front of the UNHCR office.  They claim that the UN is intentionally sitting on refugee applications: “There’s no food, no water and all people sleeping together on the street, that’s not the way it should be!”-Mahboba from Kabul, getting no help from the UN

“We left Afghanistan because of war and had no choice. I just packed, took my children and left. I did not even got the chance to say bye to my mum and brothers, tell you the truth I did not feel anything, because my daughter was injured and I was just thinking of getting my kids out of there!”-Zarina, made into a refugee by the U.S. invasion, and getting no help from the UN

Once again, your taxes at work!