ARMY RELEASES NAMES OF TWO OFFICERS KILLED IN KABUL SUICIDE BLAST

CNN is reporting the names of two U.S. officers killed in the suicide blast in Kabul, Afghanistan earlier this week.

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VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO: "DUST OFF TWO SEVEN" MEDEVAC TEAM

They are known as "Dust Off" because the U.S. Medevac teams risk their own lives to save the lives of wounded Americans from the battle field in Afghanistan.

Every second counts and in this video you will see the Medevac team pulling out all the stops to save American lives.

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WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO OF MEDEVAC TEAM WORKING TO SAVE LIVES OF WOUNDED IN AFGHANISTAN

Warning: This video shows graphic footage of a Medevac Team working feverishly to save the lives of wounded American troops in Afghanistan.

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GORY VIDEO: VIOLENCE IS ON THE RISE IN IRAQ

As the June 30th date for U.S. troops withdrawl from Iraq comes closer, the violence in Iraq is on the rise as this video clearly shows.

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MARINES UNDER ATTACK DURING "OPERATION SMACK DOWN"

Video shows a platoon of U.S. Marines coming under heavy attack during "Operartion Smack Down."

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SUPER VIDEO OF MARINES IN CLOSE COMBAT IN AFGHANISTAN

Video shows Marines in close combat against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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MARINES AND ARMY GIVE TALIBAN A DOUBLE ASS KICKING

Video shows and Marines and Army working together to give the Taliban a double ass kicking in Afghanistan.

Plenty of combat action in this video.

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NEW VIDEO: MARINE COMBAT ENGINEERS FROM BRAVO CO. CLEAR A MINE FIELD

This new video shows U.S. Marines from a Combat Engineer Unit assigned to Bravo 1 Company clearing mine fields in Afghanistan.

Personal note: It doesn't look much different than when I was a Combat Engineer in U.S. Army during the Korean War.

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U.S. CASUALTIES HIT 1,000 IN AFGHANISTAN WITH MASSIVE TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBING

U.S. casualties in Afghanistan hit 1,000 with massive Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul

BY Stephanie Gaskell DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Originally Published:Wednesday, May 19th 2010, 12:25 AMUpdated: Wednesday, May 19th 2010, 8:57 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_1000_and_counting_us_casualties_in_afghan_hit_milestone_after_latest_bombing.html#ixzz0oRJ8DZwe

Seven U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday - five in a massive Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul that filled the streets of the capital with blood.

The attack brought the U.S. toll to a grim new milestone - 1,000 American soldiers dead in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001, the independent Web site icasualties.org. reported.

A 42-year-old Canadian colonel also died in the morning rush-hour blast, along with at least a dozen Afghans.

"I saw one person lying on the ground with no head," said Mirza Mohammad, who was on his way to work when a van filled with 1,650 pounds of explosives rammed into a NATO convoy.

"Dead bodies were everywhere," said an Afghan cop. Many of yesterday's dead were women and children who were riding on a bus. Officials said more than 50 other people were wounded.

"A van driving very fast approached the convoy of foreigners and a huge blast went off," said government worker Noor Mohammad.

"I didn't know I was hurt. The explosion deafened my ears and I had a blackout."

The blast wrecked nearly 20 vehicles, including five SUVs in the NATO convoy, and scattered debris and body parts across the wide boulevard.

The body of a woman was smashed against the window of the bus.

According to the Pentagon, 1,060 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the overall campaign, dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom, which includes casualties in other countries like Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who just returned from a trip to Washington, called yesterday's attack "heartbreaking."

The fighting continued into today as insurgents launched a predawn assault against the U.S.-run Bagram Air Field.

Seven militants had been killed during the "ongoing attack" on Bagram, which included rockets, small arms and grenades, a U.S. statement said. Five service members have been wounded.

The assault began when U.S. guards spotted attackers just outside the base and opened fire, sparking a gun battle, said an Afghan provincial police commander.

MEMORY LANE VIDEO: JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AND VIETNAM WAR

We decided to post this video of Jefferson Airplane singing "Somebody to Love" to footage from the Vietnam War.

As the Afghanistan War enters the ninth year, the Department of Defense has announced 1,000 young Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since the war started.

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APACHE HELICOPTERS SPRING INTO ACTION AND KILL TALIBAN COMMANDER AND 14 OTHERS

Just outside of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, Afghanistan, U.S. Apache helicopters are seen in this video killing a Taliban commander wounding 14 other members of the Taliban.

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MUST SEE VIDEO: "THE WOUNDED PLATOON" PBS FRONTLINE VIDEO

This video should be a must view for everyone who has a family member in the military.

The video follows the troops from one platoon who return home from war with mental health issues and what is more well-known as PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I urge everyone to watch this Frontline PBS video that aired May 18, 2010.

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GRAPHIC VIDEO: U.S. SOLDIERS BOMB HOUSE USED BY TALIBAN SNIPERS

The sound on this video is slow to kick in, but when it does you will see U.S. soldiers taking out a house that was used by Taliban snipers.

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FIRST VIDEO OF ATTACK ON BAGRAM AIRFIELD IN AFGHANISTAN

This is a Pentagon Report of the attack Wednesday morning on the Bagram AFB in Afghanistan.

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BREAKING NEWS: TALIBAN ATTACK BAGRAM AFB IN AFGHANISTAN

Taliban attack biggest NATO base in Afghanistan


News by Sardar Ahmad Sardar Ahmad – 32 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100519/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest_20100519082221


BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AFP) – Taliban gunmen armed with rockets and grenades attacked the largest NATO base in Afghanistan at dawn Wednesday, sparking battles that killed 10 militants and wounded seven soldiers.

The audacious assault on Bagram Airfield came one day after a suicide car bomber killed five US soldiers, a Canadian colonel and 12 Afghans in Kabul, highlighting the relentless pace of the nearly nine-year insurgency.

The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying that 20 suicide bombers took part in the assault. The militia is known to exaggerate its claims and there was no other confirmation that suicide attackers were involved.

Major Virginia McCabe, a press officer at Bagram, said the attack was still going on after 9:00 am but denied the insurgents had been able to penetrate the sprawling base, nor was she able to confirm they were suicide bombers.

"It is still going on, but it is sporadic now," she said.

"They targeted a gate but couldn't enter, they didn't enter.... Seven ISAF soldiers were wounded. Our soldiers' response was pretty quick.

"More than 10 Taliban were killed," she said.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the ongoing attack on Bagram "included rockets, small arms and grenades".

Around 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Kabul, Bagram is run primarily by the US military and is the biggest NATO base in the country.

MORE DETAILS ON FIVE U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN (SOURCE: ARMY TIMES)

By Amir Shah and Robert H. Reid - The Associated PressPosted : Tuesday May 18, 2010 19:34:27 EDT

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/05/ap_kabul_suicide_bomb_051810/

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a U.S. convoy Tuesday, killing 18 people, including six troops — five Americans and a Canadian — in the deadliest attack on NATO in the Afghan capital in eight months.

The Canadian, Col. Geoff Parker, 42, was the highest-ranking member of the Canadian Forces to die in Afghanistan since the Canadian mission began in 2002, the country’s military said.

Twelve Afghan civilians also died — many of them on a public bus in rush-hour traffic along a major thoroughfare that runs by the ruins of a one-time royal palace and government ministries. At least 47 people were wounded, the Interior Ministry said.

The blast was the first major attack in the Afghan capital since February and followed a Taliban announcement of a spring offensive even as the U.S. gears up for a major push to restore order in the turbulent south.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the blast, telling The Associated Press in a telephone call that the bomber was a man from Kabul and that the vehicle was packed with 1,650 pounds of explosives.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai joined the U.S. and NATO in condemning the attack, which he said killed women and children.
The explosion, which thundered across the capital, happened about 8 a.m. as streets were packed with cars, buses and trucks. The bomb ripped apart vehicles and hurled body parts along the street. U.S. and Afghan forces blocked off the area as emergency workers loaded the wounded into ambulances.

“I saw one person lying on the ground with no head,” said Mirza Mohammad, who was on his way to work when the blast took place. Police officer Wahidullah, who goes by one name, said he saw the body of a woman in a pale blue burqa smashed up against the window of the bus.

“Dead bodies were everywhere,” Wahidullah said.

U.S. forces spokesman Army Col. Wayne Shanks said five American service members were killed in the Kabul blast. The U.S. command said a sixth American died separately in a bombing Tuesday in southern Afghanistan.

That brought the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan since the war began in 2001 to at least 993, according to an Associated Press count.

The Kabul attack was the heaviest loss of life for NATO in a single attack in the capital since Sept. 17, when a suicide car bomber killed six Italian soldiers.

Earlier this month, the Taliban announced a new offensive — “Operation Al-Fatah” or “Victory” — which would target NATO forces, foreign diplomats, contractors and Afghan government officials.

The announcement was made on the eve of Karzai’s visit to Washington and comes as U.S., NATO and Afghan forces are gearing up for a major operation to secure Kandahar, the biggest city in the south and the former Taliban headquarters before they were ousted from power in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. U.S. officials believe control of Kandahar is the key to stabilizing the Taliban’s southern heartland.

Kabul has been abuzz for weeks with rumors of imminent Taliban attacks against Afghan government and international targets. The last major assault in the city occurred Feb. 26 when suicide attackers struck at two residential hotels, killing six Indians and 10 Afghans.

Afghan authorities blamed the February attack on Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group that India blames for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 people.

On April 8, Afghan police announced they had arrested five would-be suicide bombers on their way to carry out a major attack in the city.

Eleven days later, the Afghan intelligence service said nine members of a terrorist cell had been arrested — presumably from the support network that was to have helped the five others carry out their attacks.

The bombing Tuesday suggests the Taliban have reconstituted their underground cells, presumably from within the city’s large Pashtun community, which forms the bulk of the insurgent force.

Also Tuesday, Afghan and NATO aircraft continued the search for an Afghan commercial airliner which disappeared Monday on a flight from Kunduz to Kabul with 44 people on board, including three British citizens and an American. Air traffic controllers lost track of the Antonov-24, operated by Pamir Airways, when it was about 55 miles north of Kabul.

“Right now, we are looking to identify the location of the crash,” Karzai said at a news conference. “In some areas, the bad weather — snow, rain and fog — will not let us do the search. We’re very hopeful that we will able to find the victims of the crash soon and hand the bodies over to their families.”

Abdul Shakour, a district official in Parwan province, said seven tribal elders in the area where the plane was last reported each promised to send two or three experienced climbers to search the remote mountains for any sign of the missing aircraft.

For families of those aboard the aircraft, however, despair turned to anger over delays in finding the wreckage.

“People are very upset with the government because it has no forces here to help us. And these 48 countries in ISAF, where are they today? They are not here to help us,” said Mohammad Isahq, a Kabul shopkeeper whose nephew, Omar Sahel, was a flight attendant on the plane.

Isahq said that the families were ready to do the search themselves if authorities would provide them with proper equipment and point them in the right direction.

VIOLENT VIDEO: AFGHANISTAN: THE OTHER WAR

The war in Afghanistan is often referred to as "the other war" because the mainstream media pays little or no attention to the war.

The suicide bombing on Tuesday in Kabul that killed five American soldiers was given only a brief mention on ONE television news show on Tuesday.

This video shows American and Canadian troops fighting the Taliban as they head for the Taliban stronghold in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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FIRST VIDEO OF TALIBAN SUICIDE ATTACK THAT KILLED 5 AMERICAN GIS

This video comes from Yahoo and shows the first pictures of what happened when a Taliban suicide bomber set off a bomb that killed five American soldiers and 18 Afghan civilians.

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GRAPHIC VIDEO OF SUICIDE BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAN

Video shows the graphic results of a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed 21.

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AH-64 CHOPPERS RETALIATE AGAINST TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBING (NEW VIDEO)

New Video shows AH-64 helicopters retaliating against the Taliban who killed 18 including five American soldiers in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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(UPDATE) TALIBAN SUICIDE ATTACKS KILLS 18 IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan Taliban suicide attack kills 18 in Kabul

The Afghanistan Taliban has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's suicide attack on a NATO convoy that killed at least 18 people, including five Americans.

Afghan police and US military cordon off an area after a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. The blast ripped through a NATO convoy and public bus in the heavily fortified Afghan capital, killing at least 18 people, including five Americans and at least 12 Afghanistan civilians.(Amir Shah/AP)

By Kristen Chick, Correspondent posted May 18, 2010 at 8:17 am EDT

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0518/Afghanistan-Taliban-suicide-attack-kills-18-in-Kabul

• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

A powerful suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul killed at least 18 people Tuesday, including five Americans and at least 12 Afghanistan civilians.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide car bombing, the deadliest attack in Kabul in months. It comes as Afghan officials are preparing to hold a jirga, or council, in Kabul to discuss peace and reconciliation with insurgents.

The bombing killed six NATO officials, five of them American, reports the Associated Press. NATO officials did not disclose the nationality of the sixth.
In addition to at least 12 Afghan civilians who were killed, more than 47 were wounded.

Many had been on a public bus that was caught in the blast, according to Afghan officials. The Taliban told the AP in a phone call that the NATO convoy was the target of the attack, which was carried out by a man from Kabul using a car packed with 1,650 pounds of explosives.

The attack took place on a busy thoroughfare near the Afghan parliament building and a military recruiting and training center, reports McClatchy.
It comes on the heels of a three-month campaign by the government to stop attacks on Kabul, during which officials said they arrested more than 115 suspects, including some planning suicide attacks on the capital.

That effort to tighten security came after a Feb. 26 attack, when the Taliban targeted hotels and guesthouses serving foreigners, killing 16 people.

Tuesday’s attack is the first major one since then, and, according to Agence France-Presse, the deadliest attack on the capital in more than a year. But the government offensive only appears to have hardened militants.

The Taliban last week announced a new nationwide offensive against US and coalition forces in the country, vowing to use suicide attacks and roadside bombings to hit foreign troops, contractors, and diplomats, as The Christian Science Monitor reported. Afghan and US officials dismissed the threat as propaganda, though NATO officers said they would continue to remain vigilant against attacks.

The attack took place just before Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, was scheduled to speak to the press after returning from his visit to the US.

NEWS ALERT: AFGHAN PLANE CRASHES WITH 44 ON BOARD

An Afghanistan plane carrying 44 civilians has crashed in Afghanistan.

Reports are still coming in.

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DEVELOPING STORY: EIGHT AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN

This is a news report coming out of Afghanistan. According to sources in Kabul, Afghanistan eight American soldiers have been killed in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Developing story...

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MARINES FACE STIFF RESISTANCE FROM TALIBAN (RAW VIDEO)

This new video comes from the New York Times and their embedded reporter C.J. Shivers as Marines run into fierce resistance from the Taliban as they push South in Afghanistan.

One Marine is shot in the shoulder, but as fortune would have it the bullet didn't hit any bone.

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NEWS ALERT: TALIBAN STILL FIGHTING IN MARJAH

According to news reports in the mainstream media, U.S. and NATO forces had taken the city of Marjah, Afghnistan from the Taliban.

However, this video indicates the Taliban are still in Marjah and are creating an insurgence to take control of the city again.

This is a new video and is an update on the situation in Marjah.

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SEAN HANNITY FALSELY CLAIMS OBAMA IS CUTTING TROOPS PAY (VIDEO)

FOX NEWS' SEAN HANNITY continues to lie, lie and lie some more on his nightly TV show.

HANNITY'S latest lie is that President Obama is cutting troops pay and benefits.

WATCH the video and read the real truth about troop pay and benefits and not what SEAN HANNITY told his braindead FOX NEWS audience.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201005150001

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INCOMING SHELLS ON AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOPS

This new video shows American and British troops in a situation where incoming shells are raining down on their position in Afghanistan.

WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE.

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RAW COMBAT FOOTAGE OF MARINES AND ARMY IN BATTLE WITH TALIBAN

This is a great new video and shows members of the Marines and Army in a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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U.S. ARMY SHOWN IN A FIREFIGHT IN KUNAR PROVINCE AFGHANISTAN (LIVE VIDEO)

This video shows a platoon from the U.S. Army in a brutal firefight with the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

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RETURN TO DUTY---RYAN CONKLIN ( MTV VIDEO PREVUE)

Ryan Conklin, a member of the U.S. Army, was featured on my blog several times when he was first deployed to Iraq.

He is one hell of a performer.

He returned home and last year he was re-deployed to Iraq where you can see him now in this video he made while overseas.

Ryan has a special coming out on MTV on Veteran's Day, Nov. 11 and it is called "Return to Duty."

You can read all about the MTV special and see a prevue of the film by clicking on this site:

http://www.mtv.com/shows/return_to_duty/series.jhtml

To watch RYAN CONKLIN explain what happened to him and how he ended up back in Iraq, click on the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/v/H_coMShQ21E&hl=en_US&fs=1

Click on link and then click on diamond-shaped arrow to play the video of Ryan in IRAQ.