surge update: Huge Bomb Kills 6 U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan

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ZHARI, Afghanistan — Six American soldiers were killed and more than a dozen American and Afghan soldiers were wounded on Sunday morning when a van packed with explosives detonated beside a small joint outpost in southern Afghanistan.

The soldiers were at a new strong point in a small mud-walled building near the village of Sangsar, north of the Arghandab River, when the bomber drove up to one of the building’s walls and exploded his charge at about 9 a.m.

The blast was easily audible roughly 8 miles away, and sent a dusty mushroom cloud towering over the farmland.

The explosion blasted a large hole in the thick wall, causing the roof to collapse on soldiers inside. Other soldiers quickly arrived and clawed and pulled at the waist-deep rubble to free the buried troops.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/world/asia/13afghan.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[democrank]

1. Just plain awful.

I honestly want to cry.

[Gin]

2. this is Obama's fiasco now.....fuck all who endorse this....that country is not

winnable for what we are trying to do.....

just watched Restrepo
the people don't want jobs...they will take our money...but for a police force to patrol their own relatives & neighbors is ludicrous...and as corrupt as Karzai.

I want our troops put of there.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. More lost lives in Obama's "necessary war".