7 ISAF members killed in Afghanistan

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Seven International Security Assistance Force servicemembers were killed in two incidents Monday in southern Afghanistan, the military said.

Five servicemembers were killed in one improvised explosive device attack, according to a news release from the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/afghanistan.casualties/?hpt=T2

[bermudat]

1. What is ISAF?

Are those mercenaries? Has Blackwater changed its name again?

[LuvOurSoldiers]

6. ISAF is

a multinational group and not Blackwater renamed, mercenaries, or just American soldiers, although we do have the highest percentage of military servicemen there. I have a very good friend who is a Navy Commander and stationed in Afghanistan with the ISAF. US General David H. Petraeus is the current commander of ISAF after Gen. Stanley McChrystal stepped down.

According to the ISAF website: "ISAF, in support of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, conducts operations in Afghanistan to reduce the capability and will of the insurgency, support the growth in capacity and capability of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), and facilitate improvements in governance and socio-economic development, in order to provide a secure environment for sustainable stability that is observable to the population."

You can read all about it here: http://www.isaf.nato.int/

[Hulk]

2. I'm confused as well.

Should I be concerned? I know I am for our military service personnel that we are sacrificing in this lunacy...but what is a ISAF "servicemember"???

[pjt7]

3. Is that what the POS network called CNN

is calling American soldiers?

[rug]

4. The US makes up 65% of the ISAF.

Table of ISAF/NATO Contributors<26>
Country↓ Number
of Troops↓ % of Total
Troops↓ Troops per
one million
population↓ Troops
per $1 billion
(USD) GDP↓
United States 78,430 65.457% 251.4 5.38
United Kingdom* 9,500 7.929% 155.2 3.56
Germany* 4,590 3.831% 55.8 1.26
France* 3,750 3.130% 58.7 1.31
Italy* 3,400 2.838% 57.0 1.48
Canada 2,830 2.362% 85.0 1.88
Poland* 2,630 2.195% 69.0 4.98
Romania* 1,750 1.461% 81.8 8.61
Turkey 1,740 1.452% 23.5 2.35
Spain* 1,555 1.298% 34.9 0.97
Australia 1,455 1.214% 69.0 1.43
Georgia 925 0.772% 214.6 72.32
Denmark* 730 0.609% 133.7 2.14
Belgium* 575 0.480% 54.2 1.14
Bulgaria* 540 0.451% 71.1 10.82
Sweden* 530 0.442% 57.6 1.11
Czech Republic* 500 0.417% 48.5 2.30
Norway 500 0.417% 104.8 1.11
Netherlands* 380 0.317% 23.0 0.44
Hungary* 360 0.300% 36.0 2.33
Slovakia* 300 0.250% 55.6 3.16
Albania 295 0.246% 93.9 22.48
Croatia 295 0.246% 66.7 4.26
Republic of Korea 270 0.225% 5.6 0.29
Portugal* 250 0.209% 23.4 1.03
Lithuania* 245 0.204% 73.8 5.18
Macedonia 240 0.200% 117.6 26.68
New Zealand 205 0.171% 48.5 1.62
Mongolia 195 0.163% 73.9 37.08
Latvia* 170 0.142% 75.2 5.03
Estonia* 160 0.134% 119.4 6.90
Azerbaijan 90 0.075% 10.3 2.01
Finland* 80 0.067% 15.1 0.29
Greece* 75 0.063% 6.8 0.21
Slovenia* 70 0.058% 34.7 1.29
Armenia 40 0.033% 13.0 3.35
Malaysia 40 0.033% 1.5 0.18
Montenegro 30 0.025% 48.2 6.22
Singapore 30 0.025% 6.5 0.16
Ukraine 15 0.013% 0.3 0.08
United Arab Emirates 15 0.013% 3.3 0.05
Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 0.008% 2.7 0.54
Luxembourg* 9 0.008% 18.7 0.17
Ireland* 6 0.005% 1.4 0.02
Jordan 6 0.005% 1.0 0.28
Iceland 5 0.004% 15.8 0.30
Austria* 3 0.003% 0.4 0.01
ISAF Exact Total 119,819 100.000% 106.8 (average) 3.05 (average)
ISAF Placemat Total <26> 119,819
NOTE: * denotes EU Countries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force#Contributing_nations

It's newspeak.

[rug]

5. And 100 % of these casualties.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4522528

[Turborama]

16. Correction

It's important to get the facts right when talking about these things.



More details here: http://icasualties.org/oef/

[Stuart G]

7. Roadside Bombs kill 7 U.S Troops

Source: MSNBC

KABUL — Two separate roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed seven U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan Monday, NATO said.

The deaths bring to 14 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.

A spike in U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan to over 120,000 has brought increased fighting and a rising death toll. Forty-nine U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan this month.

The troops killed Monday were serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the alliance said.

One roadside bomb attack killed five troops, while a separate incident killed an additional two, ISAF said in a statement


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38917373/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

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This is a new report..new deaths..not yesterday's...

What kind of insanity is this?

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

BRING THE TROOPS HOME!

[Dennis Donovan]

9. They know our weak spots and are exploiting them...

...same as they did in Iraq.

The moral of the story is: don't start wars.

[Lightning Count]

10. I think the moral of the story is don't get involved in ANY war.

Unless it's on your soil. We should have grown past the need to meddle by now.

[GreenTea]

11. 14 more young kids not coming home - Why are we there - Who's making money off this war?

14 more families in utter pain and grief, the working poor fight these wars for corporate profits & imperialism using OUR tax dollars under the guise of stopping terrorism, complete bullshit! There is absolutely no reason to be in Afghanistan - draining our economy of tens billions of dollars monthly, the killing of women & children, the devastating destruction upon countries in the region - Then we have these filthy slimy corporate republicans pointing the finger at Muslims and Mosques keeping the hate & fire going for profit and political gain....never ending wars for corporate profit and keeping us in fear of their made up enemy, an enemy to promote fear in the American people and justification for all their sick corporate republican ideological greedy suppressive elitist goals.

[Soylent Brice]

12. .

K&R

[Grinchie]

13. Kids have to stop signing the Contract.

I blame the parents for not teaching their children that War is immoral, while at the same time teaching them bigotry and hate.

I blame the schools for creating an environment of lax supervision where emotionally unstable, half starved kids are lumped together to fend for themselves all day.

I blame the church for promoting the idea that some guy will forgive all of your sins that you commit in your lifetime - Eventually.

I blame the Government for taking advantage of the father figure and sending kids off to War for nefarious purposes.

[Plucketeer]

14. WHO will remember these sacrafices tomorrow???

Only their loved ones and friends. They're basically anonymous to the rest of this disinterested nation. And we're STILL listening to the advice of professional war-makers as to why we need to be there and what's needed to secure a "win". I truly wish I were more ignorant so that this wouldn't bother me.
Every friggin' General has an ego bigger than the moon. And every friggin' general wants to leave a win behind as his legacy. With those points in mind, how can we expect a general to call for a retreat or a withdrawl??? We need presidents who have been on the front lines, in battle.

[democrank]

15. So very sad.

Bring the troops home and send the war-favoring, war-funding politicians and all their enablers.

Today I drove through Walden, Vermont. That`s the tiny village 21-year old Tristan Southworth was from. Tristan, a member of the Vermont National Guard, was killed in Afghanistan a few days ago. Dead. At 21.

There were flags everywhere on my ride home. Flags across from the pastures, flags near the vegetable stands, flags on an old building being restored in the next town over. Tristan Southworth, dead at 21.

Everybody`s son.

[Hawkowl]

17. Shhhhhh!!!

If we don't say American troops killed, but rather ISAF Members only, than it is just like they never died! Or even existed! Cool huh?