Bomb kills 4 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

Bomb kills 4 U.S. troops in Afghanistan
By Heidi Vogt - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 18:57:17 EST

KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, inflicting the year’s deadliest single attack on international forces a week after Washington set plans to send reinforcements. An Afghan civilian working with the Americans also died.

The Americans were patrolling with Afghan soldiers when their vehicle struck a bomb Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. military said in a statement. The military withheld identities of the dead and the attack’s location pending notification of relatives.

The previous deadliest attack on U.S. troops this year was an explosion in Zabul province in January that killed three Americans.

Twenty-nine U.S. military personnel have died in Afghanistan this year, far surpassing the eight Americans killed in the first two months of 2008. A total of 654 have died since the U.S.-led offensive that ousted Afghanistan’s Taliban regime in late 2001.

Taliban militants have increased attacks the last three years and now hold sway in large areas of countryside, leading the Obama administration to promise an intensified focus on defeating Islamic extremists in this region.

Rest of article at: http://armytimes.com/news/2009/02/ap_afghanistan_casualties_022409/%2e



uhc comment: To date six hundred sixty American soldiers have died in the invasion of continued occupation of Afghanistan --> http://icasualties.org/oef/

Maybe I should send Heidi a link to icasualties.org so she can get her facts straight..

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Why am I bracing myself for increasingly sad news like this?

How are we going to stop this lunacy Unhappy?