Ghazni Province: The provincial attorney general’s office was hit by explosion, killing a National Directorate of Security (NDS) agent, and wounding four others. In Deh Yak District, an explosion in a Mosque killed seven people. Cops said the victims were Mujahideen who blew themselves up while making bombs.
Helmand Province: A USMC Lance Corporal from Minnesota was killed when his convoy was ambushed.
Herat Province: In Robat Sangi District, Mujahideen attacked the convoy of a local politician. Two body guards killed, two Mujahideen killed, the politician survived.
Kabul Province: In Kabul City, Mujahideen attacked the Roots of Peace NGO guesthouse used by foreigners. All five of the Mujahideen killed, a child was killed and four security guards wounded. Roots of Peace is actually not an NGO because it works directly for the terror group known as USAID! Mujahideen also attacked the Independent Election Commission in Pul-e-Charkhi area. Two explosions and gunfire were heard. Police claim only two cops were wounded, the Mujahideen were killed. At the Kabul International Airport an Italian citizen was arrested for drug running. Cops claim he had 1.334 kg of hashish and 24 grams of opium.
Khost Province: In Khost City, a suicide bomber blew up the car he was in, killing a civilian, seven other people were wounded.
Kunduz Province: In Khanabad District, one cop killed, three wounded when they drove over a landmine. After that incident, the local police chief, riding in a van with 14 members of his family, drove over a landmine as well. He survived but the rest of his family was killed. Investigators believe the landmines were an attempt to assassinate the police chief.
Logar Province: In Charkh District, a suicide bomber killed himself and one cop, and wounded three other cops.
Jawzjan Province: In Sheberghan City, at least $1.3-billion USD will be spent building an of oil refinery and a 50 megawatt power plant. It’s being handled by the Watan Group, which has family connections to Hamid Karzai.
Sar-e-Pul Province: A provincial council candidate for Balkhab District was kidnapped.
Zabul Province: In Shahr-e-Safa District, a U.S. led Romanian NATO convoy was attacked on the Kabul-Kandahar highway (aka the A1). One Romanian NATO personnel killed, five wounded, when a car bomb plowed into their armored vehicle.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense reported dozens of battles across the country, with dozens of casualties on both sides.
Afghan and Pakistani Mujahideen announced they will launch joint attacks in the near future. This explains the sudden ceasefire between Pakistani Mujahideen and the Pakistani government. Afghan border posts in Kunar and Nuristan provinces are under constant attack from Pakistan.
The arrogant U.S. embassy officials in Pakistan have told Pakistani officials that if they want more U.S. military equipment they can get it from the Afghan government. That’s because the U.S. government has decided to leave a shit pile of U.S. military equipment to the Afghan government. However, Afghan officials said they have no plans on giving any of that war booty to Pakistan!
The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction revealed that all that U.S. taxpayer funding promised to Afghanistan has yet to materialize: “We promised 50%, and we’re slowly getting there. Most of that direct assistance now is going through various trust funds. There’s a big trust fund set up to pay the salaries of the Afghan National Army, and there’s another trust fund that’s run by the UN to pay the salaries of the police, and there’s a trust fund set up by the World Bank to support some of the Afghan ministries…………there are certain funds or monies taken out of the police salaries every month that we don’t know where the money went, nor do our allies…………there’s another fund of about 5% that was supposed to go toward retirement, and we don’t know where that money is. And then we heard about generals who apparently are not listed in the police force, but their salaries are being paid.”-John Sopko, U.S. SIGAR
The U.S. based World Bank announced another $526.5-million USD in loans and grants for developing electricity utilities of Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. The project is estimated to cost a total of $1.17-billion! The project is called CASA-1000, and involves the Islamic Development Bank and United States terror group Agency for International Development.
Afghanistan’s first “social network”, Paywast, has released the results of its survey of how Afghans view Western ‘democracy’. At least 50% of respondents said elections are bogus because the process lacks “transparency”. Of interest is that the distrust of the election system is almost equally shared by people living in the cities and people living in the country.
Not surprisingly, the pro-Obama candidate Abdullah Abdullah told U.S. news media he will win the ‘election’ in April.
Outgoing President Hamid Karzai and Tajikistan’s president Emomali Rahmon signed agreements for cooperation on arts and culture, news media and investment.
Hamid Karzai told the Washington Post that al Qaeda was “a myth” created by the United States, and that the majority of Afghans taken prisoner by the U.S. were “innocent”. He also blames U.S. led tax funding for Afghanistan’s corruption saying “Foreign assistance brought an expensive way of life to Afghanistan. This way of life is not sustainable. Afghanistan has to live by its means.”
Karzai said even the communist Soviet Union was more efficient at spending money that the crony capitalist United States: “The Soviet money went to the right place. They were efficient in spending their money and doing it through the Afghan government.”
Karzai will never forgive the United States leaders: “To the American people, give them my best wishes and my gratitude. To the U.S. government, give them my anger, my extreme anger!”
Russia has plans to replace the United States, if it ever leaves Afghanistan: “I am certain that friendly ties and cooperation between Russia and Afghanistan in the future will add to the goodness and welfare of our people.”-Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
“We welcome the Russians back.”-Ahmad, veteran of the Soviet occupation who still works at the Soviet built Kabul Housebuilding Factory
In Qatar, a New Hampshire Air National Guard Master Sergeant died from a “non-hostile” incident. He was supporting ops in Afghanistan.
A total of 200 militia-airmen of the Air National Guard’s 201st Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (Pennsylvania) deployed to Afghanistan, and other U.S. military adventures in Southwest Asia.
15 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 231st Brigade Support Battalion (North Dakota) deploying to Afghanistan. North Dakota Army National Guard also has units deployed to Kosovo, and even 200 militiamen of 188th Air Defense Artillery Regiment are deployed around Washington DC!
The Army National Guard’s 128th Mobile Public Affairs Department (Utah) deployed to Afghanistan.
Nine militiamen of the Army National Guard’s Detachment 39 Operational Support Airlift (Minnesota) returned from Kuwait, where they helped support U.S. empire ops in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.