Afghanistan Militants Poison Police, Attack Checkpoint And Kill 6

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says a roadside bomb killed one of its service members in southern Afghanistan.

In a statement Wednesday, NATO said the service member was killed on Tuesday.

It provided no other details on the incident or on the nationality of the service member.

So far this year, 94 NATO service members have been killed in Afghanistan, including at least 52 Americans.

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Comments

[Batjak]

02:07 PM on 04/04/2012

Why does everybody here want us OUT of Afganistan, a very corrupt government from Karzai on down,costing us 10 billion a month. We just paid 50k a person to the families of those killed by a GI,who should have never been sent back to the front line. ($400 a year is the average income of an Afgan. and Yet are arrongant President says will be out in two years. like that
will make a difference in the country. just more americans killed and more taxpayer money spent.

[airlaws]

01:44 PM on 04/04/2012

Alexander the Great
Ghengis Khan
The Brits
The Ruskies
All showed you can beat Afghanistan ... Nobody figured how to stay very long.

[wadisplace]

01:42 PM on 04/04/2012

Let the Muslims have their country back. Get out boys and girls out of Afghanistan.

[Batjak]

02:11 PM on 04/04/2012

The fact is they want us out. but our great President says, no, will leave in less than three years. at 10 billion a month to the american tax payer. and yet they want to re elect this guy. I just dont get it.

[djpgriffin]

04:48 PM on 04/04/2012

Right on! Map the country and note any Al Quada activity and bomb them. No troops on the ground.

[appeallawy]

12:46 PM on 04/04/2012

Any American life or American dollar that is spent overseas -- no matter what the articulated purpose -- does not acheive anything for America but derision or death. The American people are prostituted so unpopular foreign governments can maintain themselves in power and flush with graft while the average American loses daily for lack of education, real economic activity, energy policy, national policy, self-respect and the benefit of the American commonweal. Let's come home. Let's close the bases, turn off the dollars and rebuild america.

[ohiopositive]

12:30 PM on 04/04/2012

Sooner we are out the better. I'll give it six months or less before the Taliban is back in control.

[Batjak]

02:13 PM on 04/04/2012

The taliban already told the afgans, we are here to stay. the americans will be gone, and we will remember those that gave them aid. Karzai will take his millions and head out for a better life .and America will be another joke!

[SalvorHardin47]

11:34 AM on 04/04/2012

We have long since hit the wall of diminishing returns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Time to pull our troops out and concentrate on some effective defense strategies. We are entering a dangerous time that requires we use our resources to their most effective level. Funneling money and men into Afghanistan and Pakistan is proving to be counter-productive.

[ghelm92160]

09:39 AM on 04/04/2012

They are so accomplished at killing each other why are we there. Leave and unleash them on each other.!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbrnsbll]

08:34 AM on 04/04/2012

And we're still in this $hithole.

[Alexey Braguine]

06:34 AM on 04/04/2012

I wanted to read about evil cooks and poisoned soup. Hey, Huffies, sre you guys awake?

[marinemomof3]

07:43 AM on 04/04/2012

So sorry that you are disappointed that you were unable to read about 'evil cooks and poisoned soup'.

For so many of us, we read these articles to see if an American soldier was killed, and was it our son or daughter.

Bet if you had an interest in this war, the last thing you would be looking for is a 'soup' update.

[Michael Knox]

10:11 AM on 04/04/2012

the article doesn't say anything about a poisoning or 6 people being killed. VERY misleading headline. (....and why would you depend on a huffington post news article to tell you you'd lost a son or daughter?)

[ttsgw]

04:55 AM on 04/04/2012

I thought America did make themselves loved in Afghanistan as they have made the country secure and democratic, and that's why they now can leave it with pride and honour.

[Odyssey51]

01:31 AM on 04/04/2012

Okay, umm, who really cares about news from inside Iran anyway? They're a militaristic, islamic society that represses everyone within it's borders. Who even really knows if it's nuclear intents are to produce a bomb or provide power generation for it's people. Hard to believe the latter though, why would they care whether their people had power or not, they don't care about them in any other fashion. Point of the matter is, if they produce a bomb and try to fire it the missile will be intercepted and destroyed. And they also know there will be a counterstrike.

[NAVRETRD]

08:00 AM on 04/04/2012

Counter strikes never ever detered them, Islam societies are the worlds killing fields.

[Odyssey51]

01:25 AM on 04/04/2012

Ummm, hello? Where is the news about the poisoned police and the 6 dead at the military checkpoint? Good job H/Post.

[Patricia1111]

01:21 AM on 04/04/2012

When we eventually leave Afghanistan, for good measure let's spray the poppy fields with some type of Agent Orange chemical. They are the leading poppy growers of the world and nothing seems to ever stop that fact. Just wish we could bring all of our brave men and women serving there back home. The Afghans don't want us there and they just remind me of stone aged type people that like their bleak lives.

[Syni Cal]

06:03 AM on 04/04/2012

Yes, it seems that we failed on the target of reducing the poppy crop but we did manage to hold it to only trebling and we also managed to improve women's rights didn't we?, No. Oh well at least we got the oil & gas pipeline that we were really there for didn't we? No. You mean we lost another another war? No, YOU lost another war.

Don't any of you people ever think about how you are being conned by your government?

[Unity2]

07:55 AM on 04/04/2012

Who is buying from the poppy growers? If America is doing it legally, why not stop it? Is this agent used for some of our medicine here ins the USA? I heard that soldiers are destroying the fields because the Talibans are using them for sorce of income to fund their wars. What's the real deal on all of this?

[YourMindsEye]

12:56 AM on 04/04/2012

Not a word about poison. Way to go Huff Post.

[Matt Owens]

12:26 AM on 04/04/2012

Disputed heresy coming out of Afghanistan is probably worthy of a headline on Huff Post.

(Geez, it's hard to sound sarcastic online...)