3 US Soldiers, 19 Afghanis Killed in War Attacks, According to October 24, 2008 News Reports

3 US Soldiers, 19 Afghanis Killed in War Attacks, According to October 24, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note:

NATO countries corporate news media have been reckless in reporting deaths of Afghanis as a result of US-NATO forces fire as if these are Taliban fighters. In the vast majority of times, Afghani civilians have been killed to the extent that even the puppet president Karzai objected to these civilian deaths. Readers are advised that whenever such corporate news media mention Taliban deaths, they should expect civilian deaths as well, on daily basis.

3 coalition troops killed in Afghanistan

By FISNIK ABRASHI

The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan —

A roadside bomb killed three U.S. coalition soldiers in western Afghanistan, while 18 (alleged)Taliban fighters were killed in clashes elsewhere in the country, officials said.

In the southern Kandahar province, meanwhile, a bomb placed on a donkey hit a police vehicle patrolling west of the provincial capital, killing an officer and wounding two other people, said police officer Sadullah Khan.

The bomb that struck the U.S. coalition vehicle Wednesday also wounded another coalition member, the U.S. military said in a statement. It did not provide the exact location of the attack or the nationalities of the victims. Most coalition members are American.

As of Thursday, at least 549 soldiers of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

Taliban fighters regularly target Afghan, U.S. and other foreign soldiers in their campaign to weaken the government of President Hamid Karzai and its Western backers. The number of Taliban attacks has risen 30 percent this year compared with 2007.

In the southern Uruzgan province, meanwhile, a U.S. coalition airstrike killed 15 (alleged Taliban fighters) Wednesday, including a Taliban commander, another coalition statement said.

Three of the (alleged Taliban fighters) were killed inside a cave in the western Farah province's Bala Buluk district during a raid by American and Afghan troops Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

The same day, a coalition airstrike hit an Afghan army checkpoint in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine soldiers, Afghan officials said. The U.S. military acknowledged that its forces "may have mistakenly killed and injured" Afghan soldiers in what may have been a case of mistaken identity "on both sides."

More than 5,200 Afghanis have killed as a result of the US-led NATO invasion and occupation of Afghanistan this year, according to an Associated Press count of figures from Western and Afghan officials.

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