Four NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

[Comrade Grumpy]

Source: BBC

Four soldiers serving with the Nato-led international force in Afghanistan have been killed in the south of the country.

Nato said they were killed by enemy combatants while taking part in an operation alongside Afghan forces.It did not give the nationalities of those who died, but a military official told AP news agency they were Americans. They were hit by a roadside bomb, the official said.

No further details of the attack were given.

The Taliban are reported to have become more active in the south as international forces scale back their operations in preparation for withdrawal by the end of 2014. Nato troops, which lead the International Security and Assistance Force (Isaf), are transferring responsibility for security to Afghan troops as the pullout draws near.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24417899

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Busy, busy, busy. From Afghanistan to Somalia to Libya, the empire is at war.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Yawn. Who cares?

[Vox Moi]

2. Only Nato Casualties Count.

Record casualties for Afghanistan forces ...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/21/afghan-troop-deaths-hit-record-amid-us-exit/

Oh, wait ... They forgot to count Taliban casualties. Maybe they don't count either.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. That war in Afghanistan isn't stopping anytime soon.

The only question is how much we will be involved. We may well end up like Iraq, where the recipients of our assistance told us to take a flying fuck. I think that would be a good thing for us in Afghanistan, too.

[delrem]

5. Afghanistan, Iraq: "recipients of our assistance"?????

Shock and Awe was "assistance"?

I think that kind of mislabeling is tantamount to lying. The US lied to the world before attacking Iraq, it continued such lying by inventing terms like "enemy combatants", coupling that with kidnapping and disappearing people to black torture sites, relabeling the torture as "enhanced interrogation", and so on, so a whole culture of lies and evasions was built to cover up the truth and substitute an official false narrative. The US MSM went along and still goes along, with totally embedded reportage now the norm.

Shouldn't we be putting a stop to that kind of official and systematic false narrative? or at least trying to?

[Octafish]

4. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- George Walker Bush*, ''president'' of the United States, Feb. 14, 2007

Progress.

[warrant46]

6. "Freedom is on the March"