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Twelve US-led soldiers killed in 48 hours
| Quote: | Five more American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan's volatile south, bringing to 12 the number of foreign soldiers killed over the past 48 hours.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Wednesday that four of the soldiers lost their lives in a bomb attack, while the other one was killed in a gunfight with the Taliban in the volatile south.
The latest casualties come a day after seven NATO soldiers -- four British and three American -- were killed in the war-torn country.
Meanwhile, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed that militants have killed 13 American troops and seven Afghan soldiers during an attack on a military outpost in Kandahar.
Over 350 foreign troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year.
Some 140,000 US-led troops are currently stationed Afghanistan. A further 10,000 are expected to be deployed there in the coming weeks.
NATO's mounting death toll has caused public support to plummet for the Afghan war across Europe and the US.
Meanwhile, results of a CBS poll show most Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is a no-win scenario.
The poll says 60 percent of American people think the war is being handled badly.
Fifty-one percent of Americans want the US government to set a date for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
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Five US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:02:46 GMT
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US-led troops are increasingly falling victim to Taliban attacks.
Two American soldiers and three British troops have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, amid a surge in violence in the war-torn country.
A marine and a soldier were killed in separate explosions, while an airman died in a vehicle accident near Camp Bastion, the main British military base.
All three British service members died in Helmand Province, the British Ministry of Defense said.
An American soldier was killed in a blast on Saturday while another one was killed a day earlier, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
Nearly 380 foreign troopers are estimated to have lost their lives in Afghanistan since the start of 2010.
The rising death toll has raised fears that 2010 could become the deadliest year for US-led forces in Afghanistan since the invasion of the country in 2001.
This year is also believed to be the worst in terms of wounded American soldiers.
Some 2,000 US troopers were injured in Afghanistan during the first half of 2010, which is four times higher than the same period last year.
The violent incidents and rising casualties in Afghanistan come despite a massive troop surge in the war-torn country.
Some 140,000 US-led troops are currently stationed in Afghanistan. A further 10,000 are expected to be deployed to the war-ravaged country in the coming weeks.
NATO's mounting death toll has led to a dramatic decline in public support for the Afghan war across Europe and the US.
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US-led soldier dies in Afghan war
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:55:07 GMT
| Quote: | A bomb explosion has killed a US-led soldier in Afghanistan, where the foreign forces are experiencing one of their deadliest years since the 2001 invasion.
NATO said in a statement on Sunday that the soldier was killed in bomb attacks in the country's volatile south.
There are no details about the nationality of the soldier and the exact location of the incident.
The death brings to 378 the number of NATO troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year.
Attacks on US-led forces have been on the rise across Afghanistan over the past few months.
The US military has warned that fighting will intensify in the upcoming months, causing a further rise in the number of casualties.
The rising fatalities have increased opposition to the Afghan mission in countries contributing troops to the war.
Some 140,000 US and NATO troops are currently stationed in Afghanistan. A further 10,000 are expected to be deployed there in the coming weeks.
Nine years after the invasion of the country, the US and its Western allies have yet to bring stability to Afghanistan.
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Afghan blasts kill 3 US-led soldiers
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:29:15 GMT
| Quote: | American forces have experienced their deadliest month in the nine-year-old Afghan war.
Three more US-led soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan, bringing the July death toll among foreign troops in the country up to 91.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Saturday that the troops were killed in a number of explosions on Friday.
The Western military alliance has not yet revealed exact location of the explosions or the nationalities of the dead soldiers; but US military sources say they were American.
The deaths come one day after three other US soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan.
July has been the deadliest month for American forces in Afghanistan to date. Over 90 foreign troops -- 66 of whom, were American -- have lost their lives in the war-torn country this month, alone.
Roadside bombs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, (IEDs) are by far the most lethal weapons the Taliban militants have used against the foreign troops.
The American army has lost 1, 209 soldiers since October 2001 when the United States spearheaded the invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban militants.
Since that time, thousands of civilians have lost their lives and many others sustained injuries in NATO operations in the country.
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US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:17:14 GMT
| Quote: | Militants have killed another US-led soldier in the troubled southern Afghanistan where the foreign presence is experiencing one of its deadliest years since the 2001 invasion.
NATO said in statement that the soldier was killed by small-arms fire on Sunday.
The US-led military alliance, however, did not disclose the nationality of the soldier and the exact location of the incident.
The latest fatality comes as July set the record as the deadliest month for American forces stationed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001.
Over 90 foreign troops -- 66 of whom were American -- lost their lives in the war-torn country in July alone.
The death also brings the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 412.
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Good job of information....keep it up!!!!!!
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5 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:37:43 GMT
| Quote: | The death toll of the US-led troops in Afghanistan nears two thousand.
Five more US-led troops have been killed in southern Afghanistan as the foreign death toll in the war-torn country nears two thousand.
One soldier was killed by a homemade bomb and two others died following an insurgent attack on Saturday, said a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) without giving further details on Sunday.
Two Danish soldiers were also killed Saturday when their tank hit a roadside bomb while on patrol in restive Helmand province, AFP reported.
The explosion left three other soldiers injured, two of them seriously, the Danish military said.
The latest deaths bring the toll among the US-led forces in Afghanistan to 422 for the first half of 2010.
The incidents come as the number of attacks against Western troops in Afghanistan has soared significantly in the past months amid a public outcry against the prolonged war in the country.
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Three US-led soldiers die in AfghanistanSun, 08 Aug 2010 19:41:34 GMT
 A NATO military convoy hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, file photo
| Quote: | Two roadside bombs have claimed the lives of three US-led soldiers in southern Afghanistan, amid ever-increasing attacks against foreign troops in the war-stricken country.
NATO`s International Security Assistance Force declared the latest death toll on Sunday.
The US-led military alliance, however, did not disclose the nationality of the soldiers and the exact location of the incidents.
The latest upsurge of violence against foreign troops comes as July set the record as the deadliest month for American forces stationed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001.
The latest fatalities bring the overall number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 425.
Earlier on Saturday, five US-led troops including two Danish soldiers were killed in the southern Helmand province where their tank was detonated by a roadside bomb.
The rising number of casualties has dramatically slashed public support for the Afghan war across Europe and the US.
As the number of casualties among US-led troops mounts in Afghanistan, so does the public outcry over the prolonged war in the war-hit country where over 1,300 civilians have been killed so far this year, according to Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission.
Civilians have been the main victims of violence in Afghanistan, particularly in the country's troubled southern and eastern provinces, where they are killed by both militant and foreign fire.
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4 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan
By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writer Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writer – 35 mins ago
| Quote: | KABUL, Afghanistan – Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the country's north.
Three of the U.S. casualties died in insurgent attacks and one was killed by a homemade bomb, NATO said.
The deaths bring the number of international forces killed in Afghanistan this month to 42, including 28 Americans, according to a count by The Associated Press. Sixty-six American troops were killed in July, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
The exact places where the casualties occurred were not given, although heavy fighting was reported in Jaji district of eastern Paktiya province, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the border with Pakistan.
Afghan army and border police joined U.S. troops in ground fighting, while attack helicopters provided air support, according to Afghan commanders. An unknown number of militants were killed, they said.
In the country's north, insurgents using a bomb detonated by remote control destroyed the vehicle in which former guerrilla commander Salaam Pahlawan was traveling as he made his way Saturday to government offices in Faryab province's Al Mar district, said provincial police commander Khalil Andarbi.
The attack also killed two of Pahlawan's sons, ages 5 and 10, and two bodyguards, Andarbi said.
He said Pahlawan had been commander of anti-Soviet forces in the district but had lately been serving in an advisory role as a tribal elder. Many surviving veterans of the 1979-1989 Soviet invasion have been targeted by the Taliban for allying themselves with the government in Kabul.
In western Afghanistan's Herat province, insurgents Saturday ambushed a convoy carrying a provincial council member running for a seat in next month's elections for the national parliament, killing the man's brother, said Raouf Ahmedi, police spokesman for western Afghanistan.
Abdul Hadi Jamshadi's bodyguards returned fire, but Ahmedi said it wasn't known whether any militants were killed.
The attack appeared to be part of a campaign of terror and intimidation being waged by the Taliban in hopes of sabotaging the Sept. 18 elections.
Fighting around the country on Saturday and Sunday killed five Afghan soldiers and at least 17 militants, according to the defense and interior ministries. Five of the insurgents were killed when roadside bombs they were trying to plant exploded, while a joint NATO-Afghan operation in the southern province of Zabul resulted in the death of a senior Taliban commander, Sandar Yar, according to a provincial government statement.
Insurgents in Kandahar province, one of Afghanistan's most violent, killed the head of a private security company on Saturday, while one civilian was killed and five wounded by a land mine in Herat's Anjil district.
President Hamid Karzai has ordered such companies to cease operating in Afghanistan within four months, posing a challenge to the U.S. and its allies who rely heavily on contractors to guard supply convoys, installations and development projects.
Complaints have mounted that the firms are poorly regulated, reckless and effectively operate outside local law, and the order to disband them is part of the president's moves to assert his authority.
German Brigadier Gen. Josef Blotz, spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force overseeing foreign troops in Afghanistan, said ISAF supported Karzai's order and would work with his government on plans to carry it out.
However, Blotz said an interim solution may have to be found that addresses the need for some contractors to continue to operate.
Separate solutions needed to be found to provide protection for diplomats, development projects, and convoys, as well as ensure security around forward operating bases manned by foreign and Afghan troops, Blotz said.
"It is a very complex thing," he said.
Karzai has also ordered the removal of some of the capital's ubiquitous security barriers to free up snarled traffic.
Work crews outside a police recruiting center in eastern Kabul on Sunday attached steel cables to iron hoops embedded in the concrete blast walls and used cranes to move them away slab by giant slab. Some were loaded aboard trucks and removed, while others were simply shifted back from the street closer to the walls of the actual center.
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Two US-led soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan as the Taliban escalate their attacks against foreign forces stationed in the war-torn country.
| Quote: | NATO issued a statement on Tuesday, announcing that one American soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device.
The second soldier, whose nationality was not disclosed, was killed in clashes with Taliban militants.
The latest deaths bring to 458 the number of international soldiers killed in the Afghan war so far this year.
Earlier in the day, three US soldiers were injured in the central Afghan province of Logar after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The militants said two of the soldiers were killed in the incident adding that two others were injured.
According to official figures, more than 2,000 US-led soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001. Figures released by Afghanistan's Baakhtar news agency, however, put the death toll close to 4,500.
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Two US-run bases in eastern Afghanistan have been attacked by Taliban militants, Afghan officials say.
| Quote: | Afghan officials said that at least 11 Taliban members were killed after the militants launched overnight attacks on the US-run sites, named the Forward Operating Base Salerno and nearby Camp Chapman, in Khost Province near the southeastern border with Pakistan, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Meanwhile, Taliban militants claim they have killed several US soldiers during the attack.
"Already 18 American troops were killed and a US helicopter as well as an Afghan police vehicle were damaged" during the attack, claimed Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman.
"There is ongoing activity there, but it is fresh and I can't give more details," Lieutenant Commander Katie Kendrick told Reuters on Saturday.
The attack began overnight at the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman in Khost Province near the southeastern border with Pakistan.
The report says more than 30 Taliban militants attacked the base.
Local police chief, Adbul Hakim Is'haqzai, also told AFP that the militants had first raided the military base before retreating to occupy a secondary school in Khost city.
In December, seven CIA agents were killed after Taliban militants targeted FOB Chapman.
The attack was the worst attack on US intelligence officials since 1983 when the US embassy in Beirut was bombed.
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NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has announced that three US soldiers have been killed in separate bomb attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan.
| Quote: | ISAF said in a Friday press release that two service members died as a result of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strikes in eastern Afghanistan. The alliance however did not announce the names of the victims.
Another American trooper lost his life when fell prey to a bomb explosion in the southern part of the war-battered country.
Roadside bombs are by far the most lethal weapon Taliban militants use against foreign troops, Afghan forces as well as civilians.
The latest deaths bring to 35 the number of fatalities among American soldiers in war-ravaged Afghanistan this month. July, nonetheless, remains the worst month for American military casualties with a death toll of 65. A total of 302 American soldiers have been killed in the Afghan war so far this year.
The US army has lost 1, 246 soldiers since October 2001 when Washington unleashed the US-led invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow Taliban militants. Thousands of civilians have died and many others sustained injuries in US-led operations in Afghanistan.
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BBC was reporting that insurgents have taken to wearing American military uniforms during their attacks. This tactic apparently allows them to penetrate deeper into security perimeters before being detected. It is also likely to lead to more "friendly fire" deaths amid confusion about who is an imposter and who is not. All the while I was thinking: Hmmmmmm..........I wonder in which country American military uniforms are manufacturered these days?
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Blackwater probably sells the uniforms at a profit!!!!
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7 US troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer – 37 mins ago
| Quote: | 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 140,000 — 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.
The five campaign workers were snatched Wednesday by armed men who stopped their two-vehicle convoy as it drove through remote countryside. Five others traveling in the vehicles had earlier been set free, according to a man who answered the phone at the home of candidate Fawzya Galani and declined to give his name.
Residents of Herat's Adraskan district reported finding the bodies early Sunday. They were later transported to the local morgue for identification by family members, district chief Nasar Ahmad Popul said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the killings, although Taliban insurgents have waged a bloody campaign of murder and intimidation against candidates and election workers in hopes of sabotaging the Sept. 18 parliamentary polls the 249 seats in the lower house.
In a similar attack in Herat, male parliamentary candidate Abdul Manan was shot and killed Saturday on his way to a mosque by an assassin traveling on the back of a motorcycle.
Meanwhile Sunday, two suicide bombers attempted to climb over the back wall of a compound housing the governor of the far western province of Farah, but were spotted by guards and shot, provincial police Chief Mohammad Faqir Askir said.
The men's vests exploded, although it wasn't clear if they detonated themselves or because they were hit by bullets, Askir said.
The explosions blasted a chunk out of the wall and blew out windows in the compound, but there were no other reports of deaths or injuries, he said.
NATO said eight insurgents were killed in joint Afghan-NATO operations Saturday night in the province of Paktiya, including a Taliban commander, Naman, accused of coordinating roadside bomb attacks and the movement of ammunition, supplies and fighters.
Automatic weapons, grenades, magazines and bomb-making material were found in buildings in Zormat district along the mountainous border with Pakistan. Afghan leaders frequently complain that Pakistan is doing too little to prevent cross-border incursions and shut down insurgent safe havens inside its territory.
Just to the south in Khost province, U.S. and Afghan troops raised the death toll among insurgents to more than 30 in simultaneous attacks Saturday by about 50 fighters on Forward Operating Base Salerno and nearby Camp Chapman, where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack in December.
Insurgents wore replica American uniforms and at least 13 had strapped themselves into suicide bomb vests, NATO said.
The early morning raids appeared to be part of an insurgent strategy to step up attacks in widely scattered parts of the country as the U.S. focuses its resources on the battle around Kandahar.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said two Afghan soldiers were killed and three wounded in the fighting, although NATO said there had been no deaths among the defenders. Four U.S. troops were wounded, NATO officials said.
U.S. and Afghan officials blamed the attack on the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based faction of the Taliban with close ties to al-Qaida. In follow-up operations Sunday, a Haqqani commander involved in the attacks and two other insurgents were detained in Khost's Sabari district, NATO said.
NATO also said it launched an airstrike in the northern province of Kunduz on three insurgents, including a commander with the Taliban-allied Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan responsible for recruiting foreign fighters and leading attacks. At least one of the three was killed and another wounded, the alliance said.
NATO has stepped up efforts to provide security to allow an election whose outcome will be generally accepted as credible, hoping that will help stabilize the nation's fractious politics that are helping fuel the violence.
Yet frictions have continued to mar the relationship between the government of President Hamid Karzai and its international partners, largely over the knotty question of endemic official corruption.
On Saturday, the government criticized U.S. media reports that numerous Afghan officials had allegedly received payments from the CIA — including one who reportedly took a bribe to block a wide-ranging probe into graft.
A presidential office statement did not address or deny any specific allegations, but called the reports an insult to the government and an attempt to defame people within it.
The statement came the same day as a top graft-battling Afghan prosecutor said he had been forced into retirement.
Deputy Attorney General Fazel Ahmed Faqiryar has complained that Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Aloko and others are blocking corruption cases against high-ranking government officials. He said Aloko wrote a retirement letter for him earlier in the week and that Karzai accepted it.
Officials said Sunday that Faqiryar had been retired because he was 72, two years over the mandatory retirement age. |
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At least six more US-led soldiers have lost their lives in separate incidents in the troubled eastern and southern areas of Afghanistan.
| Quote: | NATO issued a statement on Tuesday, announcing that four American soldiers were killed in a bombing attack in eastern parts of Afghanistan.
In a separate incident, a fifth US soldier died in a militant attack in southern Afghanistan.
The deaths bring the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan since Friday to 22.
Meanwhile, an Estonian soldier died of injuries sustained in a bomb attack in southern Helmand Province.
At least 485 US-led forces have lost their lives in Afghanistan so far this year.
The increasing number of troop casualties in Afghanistan has caused widespread anger in the US and other NATO member states, undermining public support for the continuation of the Afghan war.
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Attack on NATO container kills one
NATO containers that have been attacked by militants in Pakistan, file photo
| Quote: | One person has been killed and two others wounded after unknown gunmen attacked a NATO container in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab.
Police officials told a Press TV correspondent that the person killed was the driver of the container carrying food supplies to US-led forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan is the main supply route for the US-led forces in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan-based US and NATO forces receive up to 80 percent of their supplies via routes that pass through the Khyber region of northwestern Pakistan and the southwestern Chaman border-crossing in Balochistan.
Hundreds of vehicles carrying fuel and supplies for US-led forces in Afghanistan have been attacked and destroyed in Pakistan over the past three years.
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Now don't worry about the financial cost of these endless ambushes. There are plenty of funds for purchasing more tankers, trucks, containers, and convoys. Even if it takes paying "Xe" massive contracts for armed escorts and excessive bribes to the local tribesman and Taliban those tanker trucks will keep coming and coming. There will be even more funds for the occupation once Obama makes good on his promise to "come together to make painful choices about the deficit." After all who would not want their S.S. and Medicare cut to pay for the fight against mud hut living tribesmen who otherwise would be crawling under barbed wire, using the monkey bars, and practicing karate? (we have all seen the terrifying video one thousand times) So keep working until age 80 and start cutting those meds into quarters americans. Peace prizer-in-chief needs all of you to make painful decisions so he can protect us from the greatest threat to america ever, the karate kicking and monkey bar trained Muslims. |
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Now if only those damn corrupt brown people we generously installed into power could just be more like their morally superior american christian counterparts our brave, heroic, christian, toughest soldiers in the world would not be getting their collective ass-kicked. Every single casualty and fatality suffered by the far superior heart and mind winning war-fighter who "serves" is the fault of those ass-backwards, puny, cowardly, stupid, dogs who need further "training". The incompetance of these hadjis is the only obstacle towards total victory for the glorious forces of the "just war".
Officials: Afghan corruption undermines anti-Taliban campaign
By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
| Quote: | KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — As the last of the 30,000 additional troops that President Barack Obama dispatched to Afghanistan arrived, top American military leaders here conceded Friday that the country's pervasive corruption threatens to undermine the effort to clear communities of insurgents and hand them over to governments that Afghans consider legitimate.
Faced with problematic public and political support at home for the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration and Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Afghanistan, continue to issue upbeat pronouncements about progress and the prospects for success. Many U.S. military and intelligence officials and diplomats in the country, however, are more guarded, warning among other things that while the additional U.S. troops are concentrated in the south, the Taliban are moving into areas in the north and elsewhere.
Moreover, even if coalition and Afghan troops succeed in eradicating Taliban influence and training Afghan forces to take over security, the officials said, the national and local governments are riddled with corruption and have lost the trust of many Afghans. Many Afghans say that while they don't like the Taliban, the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai is no better at providing security and legitimate governance than the militant Islamists are.
Afghans lack confidence that their central government can provide them with security, said Army Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, the No. 2 commander in Afghanistan. "It is just like everything else. It will be a slow process," he said. "All of that has got to improve."
He called the mission challenging, "but not impossible."
Added Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Friday during a two-day visit: "Everyone knows this is far from a done deal."
Petraeus said the Karzai administration was addressing corruption and that the often-strained relationship between the United States and the Afghan president now was good "because we can have candid conversations, forthright conversations."
During Gates' visit, however, other top military commanders said they were hopeful, but they shrouded their comments with caution. After visiting two bases in restive Kandahar province, Gates said he "came away encouraged" that the Obama administration's strategy to fend off a resurgent Taliban was beginning to work.
"I think it all points in a positive direction," Gates said Friday in Zhari district, the birthplace of the Taliban, after meeting with troops stationed there.
Gates, who shook the hand of every soldier he encountered, added that the troops are realistic about the months ahead.
"They all acknowledge this a hard fight," Gates said in comments afterward. "They understand the importance of what we are doing."
Petraeus and Rodriguez pressed for patience even as they face a July 2011 deadline set by the Obama administration to begin drawing down U.S. forces. The administration is planning a strategy review in December, and top commanders here are crafting benchmarks for that review, Gates said.
Rodriguez said he thought there'd be progress in southern Afghanistan by December. However, he hesitated about whether it would be substantial.
"It will be gradual," he said.
The last "surge" troops have arrived in what's been the most violent part of the country to buttress operations to clear communities of Taliban influence and build Afghan security forces to take control.
Whether the strategy is creating sustainable progress and shifting momentum away from the Taliban, who control large swaths of the country through persuasion or coercion, remains unclear.
Earlier in the day, Gates visited troops at Contingency Operating Base Nathan Smith in central Kandahar city who were part of the surge forces. There, troops with the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division from Fort Carson. Colo., said their operation in nearby Malajat had ended Taliban control. The Soviets, they said, never conquered the city of Kandahar during their own war in Afghanistan.
Local commanders said they could feel a shift in momentum as Afghans watched U.S. and Afghan troops move into the one-time Taliban stronghold. They said Afghans were increasingly encouraged and the Taliban were weakened.
However, those American troops had been stationed in Afghanistan for only two weeks, and they'd already lost eight soldiers, seven of them on Monday.
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3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan
| Quote: | Three foreign troops, including one American, are killed in southern Afghanistan, bringing the number of the US soldiers killed in the country since the beginning of this year to 328.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the casualties in separate insurgent attacks in the troubled south on a Sunday statement.
An American died in the war-torn Afghanistan on Saturday following a Taliban-style bomb attack, AFP reported.
The deaths bring to 498 the total number of foreign troops killed in the war-ravaged country so far this year.
Despite the casualties, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus said last Tuesday that deployments would reach 150,000 within days.
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US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
| Quote: | Another US-led soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan as foreign troop casualties are on the rise in the war-torn country.
"An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today," NATO said on Thursday.
NATO gave no further details of the blast and the nationality of the soldier was not revealed, AFP reported.
The latest casualty took to 504 the number of US-led troops killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year. This compares to 521 deaths in 2009.
Despite casualties, Commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus said that deployments would reach 150,000 within days.
According to a new poll released by Associated Press-GfK, a majority of Americans see no end in sight in the war and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old conflict.
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