Roadside bomb kills three U.S. troops near Afghan city of Ghazni

[maximuswarrior]

Members of the U.S. military carry a transfer case covered with an American flag during a dignified transfer for fallen service member, Army Ranger Sgt. Leandro A.S. Jasso on Nov. 27, 2018 in Dover, Delaware.

By Pamela Constable
November 27 at 7:48 A

KABUL — Three U.S. service members were killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb detonated next to them in the embattled province of Ghazni, U.S. military officials said.

Three other U.S. service members were wounded along with a U.S. military contractor, they added. The survivors were evacuated and are receiving medical attention. Their names were not immediately released.

U.S. military officials said Tuesday’s fatal incident took place during a military patrol near Ghazni city, which has remained tense and unstable since it was overrun by Taliban forces in August in a four-day siege that left more than 100 people dead and parts of the city in ruins.

A spokesman for the Ghazni governor’s office, Aref Noori, said a joint military operation by Afghan and NATO troops had been underway in a village southeast of Ghazni city Tuesday morning when the bomb struck an armored military vehicle carrying foreign forces.

In the past several weeks, the insurgents also launched a series of assaults on villages in rural districts of the province that are populated by minority ethnic Hazara Shiites. The attacks sent thousands of residents fleeing to other nearby provinces.

The deaths marked the fourth U.S. military fatality in Afghanistan in the past week, and the fifth this month. Last Saturday, a U.S. Army Ranger, Sgt. Leandro Jasso, was fatally wounded during a combat operation in Nimruz province. Officials said he was apparently killed by allied Afghan forces in a friendly fire incident.

Earlier in the month, U.S. Army Maj. Brent R. Taylor was shot dead in an insider attack in Kabul. Taylor was the mayor of Ogden, Utah.

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[YeBeWarned]

Americans must leave Afghanistan, There is nothing for them there except Death and misery ..Accept your defeat and leave before more coffins reach home, Young Americans dying for a war which is not theirs .

 

[Umair Nawaz]

and today as that statement comes abt mumbai drama by the American official in its event and this is the response....haha

like i said, they will need to build a lot more arlington cemetries

 

[maximuswarrior]

American adventurism in Afghanistan is over.

 

[Crystal-Clear]

hmmm rip to the fallen hero ( obviously the IED ) .

 

[JohnWick]

RIP last shades of war I think.

 

[GiannKall]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/...fghanistan.html#click=https://t.co/T5tia548ud

In other news American and Czech soldier beat to death an Afghan soldier

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Seems like a major attack. Don't remember when was the last time Americans lost this many soilders, yet the likes of Dawn, cnn and BBC do not have this as cover story!

 

[gambit]

Hmmm...Another masturbation thread for those too chickenshit to come out behind their keyboards.

 

[GiannKall]

Seems like a major attack. Don't remember when was the last time Americans lost this many soilders, yet the likes of Dawn, cnn and BBC do not have this as cover story!

Big deal for colonialists. Considering the fact that in the last 3 years 30.000 Afghan soldiers have being killed its nothing

 

[war&peace]

Well, now it's time for them to pack up & leave as brave Afghans are redeeming their freedom from the foreign occupation forces.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Big deal for colonialists. Considering the fact that in the last 3 years 30.000 Afghan soldiers have being killed its nothing

In last three years 30000 or 30 Afghan soldiers?

 

[gambit]

Well, now it's time for them to pack up & leave as brave Afghans are redeeming their freedom from the foreign occupation forces.

You are correct that it is time for US to leave. It is also time for the Afghan leadership to learn not make the same mistake as their predecessors -- Mullah Omar and company.

 

[rambro]

Americans must leave Afghanistan, There is nothing for them there except Death and misery ..Accept your defeat and leave before more coffins reach home, Young Americans dying for a war which is not theirs .

They want to guard the poppy fields and a backdoor to russia for containment

 

[war&peace]

You are correct that it is time for US to leave. It is also time for the Afghan leadership to learn not make the same mistake as their predecessors -- Mullah Omar and company.

I would rather say that's their internal issue..they can have whoever they want..Don't you believe in people's right to choose their leadership?

They want to guard the poppy fields and a backdoor to russia for containment

They can ask Mexicans to supply them