things are going well in Afghanistan...18 dead after ambush on US convoy

[w8liftinglady]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence
KABUL, Afghanistan - A "complex" ambush involving a suicide car bomb and militant gunfire killed 16 Afghan civilians and wounded 25 people during an attack on a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.

The suicide bomber hit the American convoy with an explosives-packed minivan, said Noor Agha Zawok, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, and militants then fired gunfire from several directions, the U.S. military said. Coalition forces returned fire in defense of the attack, the U.S. said.

It wasn't immediately clear if the Afghans were killed by the militants gunfire or that of the U.S. soldiers.

Hundreds of Afghans gathered to protest the violence, blocking the road and throwing rocks at police, with some demonstrators shouting "Death to America! Death to Karzai," a reference to President Hamid Karzai.

[Perky]

1. I guess spring comes early in afghanistan

SPring offensive by the Taliban has bee a concern for months

[izzie]

2. and I do not see it a Little America.

I think from reading history that this country wants to be left as its own country even if we want it something like ours. I say we will be just another country that does not win in that country.