In Ghazni Province, reports that U.S. forces shot and killed a grade school teacher. Villagers say the U.S. forces also shot at cops who were responding to the shooting, one cop killed, four wounded. The teacher was working in an orchard when he was shot. Mujahideen report that what happened was that U.S. forces were arriving late to a battle between Mujahideen and Afghan National Police (ANP). Mujahideen observed what happened, saying the U.S. forces thought the teacher, along with other civilians working in the orchard, were Mujahideen and shot at them. Then the ANP responded, thinking the Mujahideen had returned. The result was that U.S. and ANP fought each other. Mujahideen had a good laugh watching the comedy of errors!
In Nangarhar Province, Jalalabad city, another round of explosions. 28 people wounded.
In Uruzgan Province, Tarinkowt city, an Afghan National Police (ANP) cop was shot and killed by other ANP personnel when he tried to bomb a bank where fellow cops were collecting their monthly pay.
In Kandahar Province, Kandahar city, four civilians killed, 27 wounded by a car bomb. Other reports say it was a bomb hidden in a livestock cart.
Mujahideen report that at least a dozen ANP cops from several provinces joined the Mujahideen. Some of those joining the Mujahideen included front line officers.
There have been many explosions in Afghan cities, many of which the Mujahideen do not claim the credit. Mujahideen do take credit for explosions against government targets. Yet another religious group has condemned suicide bombing. The Ulema Council of Afghanistan declared suicide bombing as illegitimate in the religion of Islam. The fact that so many religious leaders condemn suicide bombings makes you wonder who’s really behind the suicide bombings.
Flooding has hit nine Afghan provinces, including Nangarhar, Kabul, Khost, Laghman and Nuristan. At least 84 people dead.
In the British empire country of Australia, one man pled guilty to sending harassing letters to families of dead Diggers. He said it was his way of protesting the false War on Terror in Afghanistan. He called the dead Diggers child killers, which in some cases is actually true, however the families of the dead Diggers didn’t want to be reminded.
India has promised Afghanistan another $100 million USD in cash: “After providing $20 million funds, we are again pledging $100 million in fresh aid, but the funds will be spent on small development projects which will boost the principles of social economy, since India wants a solid and strong Afghanistan.”– Amar Sinha, Indian ambassador to Afghanistan
The Secretariat of the National Security Council of Iran has signed a long term strategic cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Afghanistan National Security Council. It was signed before the inauguration of the new Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani. The MoU includes military/police cooperation, information sharing and economic activities.
The reporter who was publicly beaten by the very governor of Parwan Province he accused of corruption, has asked the Afghan government for help: “Since the ministry of interior affairs of Afghanistan is responsible to provide security for the citizens of Afghanistan, and similarly each citizen has obliged to assist police, therefore, I, Nasratullah Iqbal, an ordinary citizen of Kabul city and reporter of Bokhdi News Agency would like to bring to the attention of interior ministry that my life is in risk, and request the ministry to take legal actions to prevent my own and my family’s concerns in this regard.”
A former Afghan UN security guard went public with the story of how U.S./ISAF destroyed his life. In April 2008, as he was passing a U.S./ISAF convoy he was shot by U.S./ISAF personnel. They claimed he was a suicide bomber. He lost the use of one leg. The United Nations fired him from his security guard job because he couldn’t walk. His four children were kicked out of a private school because he could no longer pay, they were bullied out of a public school. This week he spent hours in line at a local court, trying to stop his family’s eviction from their home. His story is considered typical. So much for the United States occupying Afghanistan in the name of security and stability.
It’s been revealed that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Pakistani officials to discuss a new official office of the Mujahideen (Taliban).
Ever since the Marine Corps Times revealed that Cragslist has become the place for military personnel to find gay sex partners in Iraq and Afghanistan, the newspaper is now warning that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Afghanistan are now posing as homosexuals to catch the gay sex posters. The U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) forbids even heterosexual sex in combat zones!
According to The Fiscal Times, Obama’s threat to pull all U.S. personnel out of Afghanistan (Zero Option) is actually a cover to try and save the broke U.S. government $112 billion!
A recent U.S. News & World Report revealed that many U.S. personnel killed or wounded in Afghanistan are college graduates who joined the military to payoff their massive student loans. I write this because I’m still amazed by how many U.S. citizens think federal student loans (misleadingly called Federal Student Aid) equals free college education.