3 US soldiers wounded in Kabul attack

[Charlie Brown]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/28/AR2005082800238.html

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Suspected Taliban rebels on Sunday killed a candidate running in next month's legislative elections, while an attack on a U.S. military convoy wounded three American troops, authorities said.

Militants attacked the U.S. service members as they were patrolling Friday about 25 miles east of Kabul, a U.S. military statement said. An attack helicopter rushed to the site, but the rebels had fled.


The wounded were in stable condition after being evacuated to Bagram, the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, about an hour drive north of Kabul, the statement said.

[oasis]

1. Rummy and Tommy Franks took the needed troops out of Afghanistan

prematurely to pursue the PNAC agenda. We now have two fronts where our troops are paying the price for Rummy's half-assed measures.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

3. But Afghanistan

doesn't have oil, black gold, Texas tea. All it's got (maybe) is old Osama Been a Long Memory. I personally know someone in Afghan. Every time I hear about another casualty I get shivers.

[daleo]

2. It must have been bad

They didn't use the weasel language, like "hurt" or "lightly wounded".