surge update: 7 US troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign aides working for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.

Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in southern Afghanistan, while two others were killed in a bomb attack in the south on Saturday and three in fighting in the east the same day, NATO said. Their identities and other details were being withheld until relatives could be notified.

The latest deaths bring to 42 the number of American forces who have died this month in Afghanistan after July's high of 66. A total of 62 international forces have died in the country this month, including seven British troops.

Fighting is intensifying with the addition of 30,000 U.S. troops to bring the total number of international forces in Afghanistan to 120,000 — 100,000 of them American. Most of those new troops have been assigned to the southern insurgent strongholds of Helmand and Kandahar provinces where major battles are fought almost daily as part of a gathering drive to push out the Taliban.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38900766/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

[malaise]

1. End the useless wars

Enough death and destruction for corporations

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2. 42 deaths...just this month

[Octafish]

3. Why?

Caputure bin Laden? Destroy Al Qaeda? Install a UNOCAL puppet?

The United States Government is yet to provide a legitimate reason for making war in Afghanistan.

[Forkboy]

4. K&R

No one even seems to notice anymore.