Posted on 05/19/2007 2:27:15 AM PDT by Michael81Dus
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three German soldiers and four civilians on Saturday in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, Afghan security officials said.
To the south, militants in Kapisa province engaged Afghan and foreign forces overnight in a battle in which several dozen Taliban fighters were believed to have been killed, the U.S.-led coalition said.
And in the Shinwar district near Jalalabad, a remote-controlled bomb killed a police chief and another officer and wounded three others on Saturday, a local official said.
Insurgents have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan in recent weeks following the traditional winter lull. The Taliban has said it has trained hundreds of suicide bombers to carry out the attacks.
In the city of Kunduz, the suicide bomber struck when the German soldiers were patrolling on foot and in a vehicle.
"Suddenly we heard a big sound. We were frightened," said Aziz, a shopkeeper. "We saw very thick smoke and people rushing to escape."
In addition to the seven killed in the blast, 14 people, including two German soldiers, were wounded, according to local security officials who blamed the attack on the Taliban.
On Thursday, roadside explosions killed 11 Afghan police officers and the nation's information minister was wounded in a suicide bombing.
The attacks follow the death of the insurgents' top operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, in a U.S.-led coalition raid last weekend. His death was considered the biggest blow to the Taliban since they were driven from power in 2001.
In Kapisa province, northeast of Kabul, militants ambushed and tried to trap Afghan and coalition forces before midnight Friday in the al-Asay valley, a coalition spokesman said.
"Coalition air strikes were called in. Several dozen enemy fighters were believed to have been killed," Major Chris Belcher, a coalition spokesman, said.
In Germany we still use a funny term for someone who has a easy job: "Kamerad von der Westfront" (comrade from the western front). America was and is impressive to us in many ways, but for sure not because of its fighting traditions. Guess what - you should be proud of that.
are you really such a screwup liberal? one island was not ALL of Japan !
Do you really want to expose your own compatriots to the blind revenge of high end terrorists that are in a hopeless situation? Do you really want to start a genocide on all people of the middle east? Do you really want to join the club of mass murderers like Hitler and Stalin?" I only responded to you because I had too
Not quite.
Nevertheless we Germans made bad experience with such bloody solutions like genocides. Such never pays out. It does not matter if your cause ist just or not, if you loose your sense of proportion in warfare, you have to pay a high price.
BTW - You do not have to respond me.
Regards from good old Europe.
A.B.
yes I do have to respond, you are attempting to mislead this
pick any city and glass it over, give them a fair chance to drop everything and leave, but follow through with glass one (1) city over.
that is a long long way from any genocide
” Regards from good old Europe. “
and I don’t see it as Europe anymore, it is more Eurabia
Postscriptum Euroarabicum:
BuHuHaHa! Have you ever crossed the borders of Pennsylvania? We Germans have 3.7% muslims (many of them secular) living in our country. That means that 96.3% are NOT muslim. That is a long long way to "Eurabia" or whatever you call it.
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