The last time I updated the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan was September 16. At that time there were 339 listed with 901 listed as being wounded in action. Today there are still 339 listed as dead and 901 injured. With all of the activity that has taken place over there in the last ten days, we are very fortunate if there have been none added to either list. That does not mean that things are not happening to the forces of other countries involved in the NATO command actions in Afghanistan. Here is a listing of activities during that period. Further details can be found
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09/26/06 repubblica: Two Italians seriously wounded
The two military serious wounded are the marshal Francisco Cirmi, that he has brought back a fort trauma you make them, and caporal the greater Vincenzo Cardella, hurt to the inferior limbs.
09/26/06 ansa.it: Five Italians injured by bomb
Five other Italian soldiers were injured - two seriously - in the remote-control blast which took place at 8.00 a.m. local time some 10 kilometres to the south of Kabul.
09/26/06 AP: Chief Corporal Major Giorgio Langella killed by the blast
The Italian soldier, Chief Corporal Major Giorgio Langella, was killed by the blast, and five Italian soldiers were wounded, said the Italian Defense Ministry in Rome.
09/26/06 esercito: CORDOGLIO DEL CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE DELL'ESERCITO
Il Capo di Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito, Generale di Corpo d'Armata Filiberto Cecchi...espresso i più profondi sentimenti di cordoglio alla famiglia del Caporal Maggiore Capo Langella, caduto nell'attentato
09/26/06 Dose: Afghan medical care tangled in red tape and terror
An ambulance arrived for the district's only medical centre about four months ago, a much-needed gift from the Canadian provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar city.
09/26/06 AFP: Six rebels killed in would-be Afghan suicide attack
Six suspected rebels were killed in eastern Afghanistan when they were escorting a suicide bomber whose explosives detonated early, a provincial governor said Tuesday.
09/26/06 ChicagoTribune: Gray-haired Humvee gunner, 52, is oldest U.S. woman to die in combat
The older soldiers called themselves the Gray Brigade, but Sgt. 1st Class Merideth Howard never talked about her age. Soon, no one asked.
09/26/06 CNN: Afghan suicide attack kills 18
A suicide bomber struck outside the compound of a southern Afghan provincial governor on Tuesday, killing 18 people, including several Muslim pilgrims seeking paperwork to travel to Mecca, officials said.
09/26/06 CBC: Bomb under bridge kills Italian soldier in Afghanistan
Two separate bombings believed to be the work of Taliban insurgents killed 20 people in Afghanistan on Tuesday, including an Italian soldier killed by a remote control bomb planted under a bridge.
09/25/06 VOA: Gunmen in Afghanistan Kill Top Female Official in Kandahar
Police in southern Afghanistan say the head of the women's affairs department in Kandahar province has been gunned down outside her home...unidentified gunmen on motorbikes shot and killed Safia Ama Jan as she was about to leave for her office Monday
09/25/06 Xinhua: 2 suicide bombers killed in E. Afghanistan
Two suicide bombers lost their lives Monday as their explosive-laden car apparently went off pre-maturely in the eastern Khost province of Afghanistan, spokesman of Interior Ministry said.
09/25/06 Newsweek: The Rise of Jihadistan
Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely.
09/24/06 AFP: NATO forces say 23 rebels killed in Afghanistan clashes
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan says it has killed 23 insurgents in new clashes and has wound down an anti-Taliban mission in the west of the country after meeting little resistance.
09/24/06 IRNA: 1,100 Afghan refugees back home from southern Iran
Head of provincial Bureau for Alien and Foreign Immigrant Affairs (BAFIA) said Sunday that some 1,100 Afghan refugees have returned to Afghanistan from this southern province in the past six months.
09/24/06 LATimes: Secrecy hides alleged abuse in Afghanistan
After completing their deployment to this remote fire base, the Green Berets of ODA 2021 left for home covered in glory.
09/23/06 Dose: Development a slow road in unstable Afghanistan
The story is being told at the provincial reconstruction team's base in Kandahar city. Fourteen police commanders have gathered to learn how to improve security at their stations, and subsequently better protect their people.
09/23/06 BBC: TA soldiers Afghanistan call-up
Part-time soldiers from Somerset are among a party of 100 due to fly to one of the world's most dangerous places.
09/23/06 : Britain's top soldier plays down criticism of military
Britain's highest ranking officer dismissed criticism of the air force's performance in Afghanistan as isolated, adding that the armed forces were "doing an extremely good job."
09/23/06 Reuters: Taliban "tougher than expected"
The Taliban is proving to be a more difficult adversary for British troops in Afghanistan than they expected, the head of the army told the BBC on Saturday.
09/23/06 worldpress: The War on Education in Afghanistan
In Western perception, parents usually assume as a matter of fact that their children's schools are safe and harmless sites. When they go to work, American and European parents know that their children are learning and playing in safety...
09/23/06 AP: U.S. death toll in Afghanistan, Iraq exceeds 9-11
Now the death toll is 9/11 times two. U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America's history, the trigger for what came next.
09/23/06 wiscnews: Portage veteran receives honors for duty in Afghanistan
When Michael Chatman's humvee became airborne after an explosion in Afghanistan, he had a picture of his high school sweetheart, Tiffany, with him. Her photograph also accompanied him while he jumped out of airplanes and cleared minefields in Iraq.
09/22/06 AFP: 25 Taliban killed in southern Afghanistan:
The fighting erupted in Uruzgan province after a band of rebels attacked a police post in the Chora district, General Mohammad Qasem... A policeman was killed and five wounded in the attack.
09/22/06 dpa: Taliban take over district headquarters in western Afghanistan
The Taliban has seized control of the Gulistan district headquarters in western Farah province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency reported Friday quoting the district chief.
09/22/06 AFP: Government denies Afghan casualties being played down
The government has denied that the casualty toll among its forces in violence-wracked Afghanistan is being under-reported, as claimed by a senior officer on the ground.
09/22/06 AP: 19 Afghan construction workers killed
Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers, killing 19 of them, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Friday.
09/22/06 AFP: Scale of British casualties in Afghanistan under-reported
The scale of British military casualties in Afghanistan is being under-reported, a press report said, citing a report by a senior army officer. Major Jon Swift, currently serving in Afghanistan, made the comments...
09/22/06 Reuters: Body of kidnapped Turkish guard found
a body found in southern Afghanistan was identified as that of a kidnapped Turkish guard. The Taleban said its militants had killed the guard after a Turkish construction company ignored an ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.
09/22/06 Reuters: Pakistani killed in Afghan raid
Gunmen in Afghanistan attacked a convoy of oil tankers importing fuel for foreign forces and a construction company, killing a Pakistani worker, an Afghan government official said on Friday.
09/22/06 hindustantimes: Taliban not gaining strength: Afghan Prez
Afghanistan's president has said that the Taliban was not gaining strength in his country and suggested that Pakistan's toleration of militants had helped make Afghanistan unstable.
09/22/06 Reliefweb: Violence in Afghanistan is at its most severe since 2001
The upsurge in violence in Afghanistan over the past few months represents a "watershed" and is the most severe threat to the country's transition to peace since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns today
09/22/06 gulf-times: Afghanistan, Pakistan clash over war on terror
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has angrily rejected Afghan charges that he was being soft on the Taliban and said Kabul should be doing more to stamp out the militant threat.
09/21/06 esercito: DECEDUTO UN MILITARE ITALIANO IN AFGHANISTAN
Questa notte alle 23.05 circa ora locale...durante una normale attivita di pattuglia nel distretto di Chahar Asyab, circa 13 km a sud di Kabu...Nell'incidente è deceduto il Caporal Maggiore Giuseppe Orlando, 28 anni di Palermo.
09/21/06 CanWest: Taliban label hides myriad enemies in Afghanistan
Few Canadian soldiers have looked into the face of the Taliban in quite the same way as Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie over a dinner table...'Taliban, like any large grouping, there's a spectrum,' Leslie explained.
09/21/06 Xinhua: Beheaded body of Turkish engineer found in S Afghanistan
The police found the body of an executed Turkish engineer in Gereshk district in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Thursday, a local official said.
09/21/06 BBC: Italian soldier dies in accident
An Italian soldier has been killed when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling overturned near the Afghan capital, Kabul, a Nato statement said.
09/21/06 Reuters: Tribals help Pakistan arrest 10 Taleban suspects
Tribal elders in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan region helped security forces arrest 10 suspected Taleban fighters believed to have been returning from Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
09/21/06 Xinhua: 4 militants killed, 5 others captured in S Afghanistan
At least four Taliban insurgents have been killed and five others detained in clashes in the southern Zabul province of Afghanistan, a local official told Xinhua on Thursday
09/21/06 AP: U.S. likely to maintain Afghan force
U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are likely to remain steady, at about 21,000, at least until next February, the top U.S. general for the mission there said Thursday
09/21/06 Reuters: Minister says France cannot help in southern Afghanistan
France will not send troops to help NATO in southern Afghanistan because it has its hands full in Kabul, Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Thursday.
09/21/06 AP: U.S. likely to maintain Afghan force
U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are likely to remain steady, at about 21,000, at least until next February, the top U.S. general for the mission there said Thursday
09/21/06 Xinhua: 4 militants killed, 5 others captured in S Afghanistan
At least four Taliban insurgents have been killed and five others detained in clashes in the southern Zabul province of Afghanistan, a local official told Xinhua on Thursday
09/21/06 Reuters: Tribals help Pakistan arrest 10 Taleban suspects
Tribal elders in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan region helped security forces arrest 10 suspected Taleban fighters believed to have been returning from Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
09/21/06 BBC: Italian soldier dies in accident
An Italian soldier has been killed when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling overturned near the Afghan capital, Kabul, a Nato statement said.
09/21/06 Xinhua: Beheaded body of Turkish engineer found in S Afghanistan
The police found the body of an executed Turkish engineer in Gereshk district in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Thursday, a local official said.
09/21/06 CanWest: Taliban label hides myriad enemies in Afghanistan
Few Canadian soldiers have looked into the face of the Taliban in quite the same way as Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie over a dinner table...'Taliban, like any large grouping, there's a spectrum,' Leslie explained.
09/20/06 CANADIANPRESS: Fallen soldiers mourned
The wife of a soldier slain during a suicide attack in Afghanistan bid her husband a safe return to Canada for the holidays in an emotional message sent less than two weeks before his death.
09/20/06 AP: Karzai calls for destroying militant sanctuaries outside Afghanistan
Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman in Afghanistan, while President Hamid Karzai told the U.N. Wednesday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
09/20/06 DailyTimes: NATO says 1,000-1,500 Taliban died in Afghan fight
NATO's Operation Medusa this month killed 1,000 to 1,500 Taliban fighters, its top operational commander said on Wednesday.
09/20/06 CanWest: Suicide bomber told troops he hated Taliban
Four times previously, Canada has lost four soldiers in a single day in Afghanistan. This time they were killed by a suicide bomber riding a bicycle — by a man who moments before had told them how happy he was to see them...
09/20/06 AFP: Coalition troops kill 16 Taleban in clashes
Nato and US-led soldiers clashed with insurgents in southern and south-eastern Afghanistan, killing up to 16 of the fighters with air power and gun fire, officials said yesterday.
09/20/06 DND: Names of Remaining Deceased Soldiers Released (part 1)
The remaining three Canadian soldiers killed in the suicide attack that occurred on September 18 in Afghanistan are: Corporal Glen Arnold from 2 Field Ambulance based in Petawawa, Ontario
09/20/06 DND: Names of Remaining Deceased Soldiers Released (part 2)
killed in the suicide attack that occurred on September 18 in Afghanistan...Corporal Shane Keating of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Manitoba;
09/20/06 DND: Names of Remaining Deceased Soldiers Released (part 3)
killed in the suicide attack that occurred on September 18 in Afghanistan...Corporal Keith Morley, of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
09/20/06 AFP: Musharraf steps up war of words with Karzai over Taliban militia
Pakistan's leader Pervez Musharraf stepped up his war of words with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai over the Taliban ahead of their talks with US President George W. Bush.
09/20/06 pressdemocrat: Taliban-style rule feared in Somalia
The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia said Tuesday it will train students for holy war against foreign peacekeepers, an ominous development amid fears that a Taliban-style regime is emerging in the country.
09/20/06 AP: Afghan women killed, 18 injured by grenade thrown at wedding party
An outdoor wedding celebration north of the Afghan capital was attacked by assailants who threw a grenade, killing five women and wounding 18, an official said.
09/19/06 forces.gc: Name of Deceased Soldier Released
One of the Canadian soldiers killed in today's suicide attack in Afghanistan was Private David Byers of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Manitoba.
09/19/06 RFE/RL: Taliban Claims To Have Killed Turkish National
A man claiming to speak for the Taliban spokesman has told Radio Free Afghanistan that the insurgents have killed Mustafa Asimi, a Turkish national kidnapped in late August.
09/19/06 AP: Police kill 11 suspected Taliban in southern Afghanistan
Police killed 11 suspected Taliban insurgents in two separate operations in southern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday
09/19/06 RTE: ban resistance was underestimated
The British Defence Secretary, Des Browne, has admitted that Britain and its NATO allies seriously underestimated the resistance they were facing from Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
09/18/06 AP: Kansas National Guard Member Killed In Afghanistan
A National Guard sergeant was killed Friday during fighting in Afghanistan. The military said that Sgt. 1st Class Bernard Lee Deghand, 42, of Mayetta was killed by small arms fire during combat operations in Afghanistan
09/18/06 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class Bernard L. Deghand, 42, of Mayetta, Kan., died on Sept. 15 in Spira, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when his unit encountered enemy forces using small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire during combat operations...
09/18/06 AP: Bomber targets troops in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked Canadian troops handing out candy to children in southern Afghanistan on Monday, an Afghan official said. NATO confirmed "multiple casualties" among alliance troops.
09/18/06 AFP: Suicide attack in crowd of children in Afghanistan
"A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body in a crowd of children where the troops were distributing pens and notebooks to kids," a district police official told AFP on condition of anonymity Monday.
09/18/06 reliefweb: Military strengthens its reconstruction and stabilization efforts
The Department of National Defence today announced the strengthening of reconstruction and stabilization efforts in Afghanistan.
09/18/06 GlobeandMail: Taliban vow to retake Panjwai redoubt
The Taliban fighter who passed through Kandahar city this weekend seemed remarkably calm and happy, considering the horrors he has seen in the past two weeks
09/18/06 AFP: Thirteen Taleban dead in Afghanistan battle
Police and Taleban rebels fought a two-hour gunbattle in volatile southern Afghanistan, leaving 13 insurgents dead including a local commander, police said Monday.
09/18/06 Reuters: Four NATO soldiers killed in Afghan suicide blast
A suicide bomber killed four NATO soldiers in an attack in the Afghan south on Monday, a force spokesman said...An Afghan police officer said the bomber, who was on a bicycle, attacked Canadian soldiers...
09/17/06 AP: NATO says anti-Taliban operation is done
A top NATO general said Sunday an offensive aimed at driving Taliban militants out of their safe heavens in southern Afghanistan has been "successfully completed
09/17/06 smh: Life's a lottery in the new Afghanistan
IN THE exotic world of banking, there are systems like Switzerland, secure and secretive; economies like Australia, staid and safe, expensive to use; or those of Asia during...
09/17/06 AFP: Pakistani killed in blast near Canadian convoy in Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber exploded a bomb-filled car near a convoy of Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan, killing a Pakistani national and wounding 11 other people.
09/17/06 WaPo: Road Blast in Afghanistan Kills Three Aid Workers
Three Afghan aid workers were killed Saturday when their vehicle hit a bomb on a highway just south of the capital, while 7,000 Afghan and U.S. troops launched an operation against Taliban insurgents in five eastern and central provinces.
09/17/06 Reuters: Taliban warn against Pakistan pact violation
An aide to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar warned of "problems" in Pakistan's North Waziristan region in case of a violation of a peace pact signed this month, a newspaper reported on Sunday
