Friday, April 2, 2010

War News for Friday, April 02, 2010

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 1st.


Seven Kurdish Rebels Killed In Clashes With Turkish Army:

Israeli tank-defence system could be sign of future in Western battle against insurgents:

800 cases filed on civilians killed in US wars: ACLU:

Blog: Army Report: GIs Outgunned in Afghanistan:

US Opposed to Iran-Pak Gas Pipeline Deal:

Dutch army to leave Afghanistan in '10:

Afghan President Rebukes West and U.N.


Reported security incidents

Afghanistan: "The (not so) Forgotten War (anymore)"
#1: A Japanese journalist has been kidnapped in Afghanistan, Japan's chief cabinet secretary said on Friday, after media reports saying the freelancer had gone missing in the northern city of Kunduz. Kosuke Tsuneoka, a 40-year-old freelance journalist who is a Muslim, has been in Afghanistan since mid-March to cover the Taliban, Japanese media reported. It was unclear who the kidnappers were.

#2: Three people were killed and five others wounded when a convoy of vehicles belonging to a private security company was ambushed by Taliban fighters near Karwangah village in western Farah province, police commander General Ekramuddim Yarwal said. He said two Taliban gumen had been arrested by police. A Taliban spokesman, Qare Yusuf Ahmadi, said 17 people were killed and many vehicles had been taken.

#3: Two Taliban militants were killed as they came under air attacks in Khost province east of Afghanistan on Thursday, a military local official said. "Two militants were busy in planting mine on a road in Lakan area outside Khost provincial capital the Khost city this afternoon when security forces identified them and called in airpower. Aircraft of NATO-led forces dropped bomb and killed both on the spot," General Mohammad Nawab told Xinhua.


DoD: Pfc. Raymond N. Pacleb

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