2 NATO soldiers killed -June 6-2007

[Mike Baker]

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/06/nato-soldiers.html?ref=rss

Two NATO soldiers were killed in two separate battles with suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Wednesday.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force released no further details, including the soldiers' nationalities or where the combat took place.

Southern Afghanistan is the centre of the Taliban-led insurgency against Afghan and foreign troops.

More than 2,000 Canadian soldiers are serving in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar region.

Fifty-six soldiers and one diplomat have been killed since the Canadian mission started in 2002.

 

[gaspasser]

If NATO and/or the Military have yet to release the names of the fallen, why-oh why! does CBC find it necessary to add that 56 Canadian Soldiers have died on this mission??
:-\ frakking CBC!

How insenstive of me not add that my heart goes out to the families and friends of our fallen comrades. 
...may time not age them...

 

[vonGarvin]

Irrespective of the cbc's reporting methods (more on that later in another thread), RIP to the fallen, and may their families be consoled in this their time of sorrow.

 

[Mike Baker]

CTV has a bit more:

Two NATO soldiers killed in clashes with Taliban
Updated Wed. Jun. 6 2007 6:43 AM ET

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two NATO soldiers died battling militants in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, while U.S.-led and Afghan troops backed by airstrikes killed two militants and detained nine others, officials said.


The two soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance force died in "separate engagements with enemy fighters," an ISAF statement said. ISAF did not release other details such as the soldiers' nationalities or where the combat took place.


In the central province of Uruzgan, militants attacked U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces in the Khas Uruzgan district on Tuesday, a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said.


The guerrillas retreated into a compound that was later bombed by coalition aircraft, the statement said.


Two suspected militants were found dead after the clash and nine "enemy fighters" were detained, it said. Troops also recovered weapons and ammunition from the compound.


To the southeast, coalition and Afghan troops on Wednesday raided a suspected Taliban hide-out in Zabul province, detaining 10 suspected fighters, the coalition said.


Two of the 10 were apprehended while trying to flee with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and three grenades.


Southern and eastern Afghanistan are at the center of the Taliban-led insurgency against Afghan and foreign troops.


Both military and militant operations are intensifying, raising doubts about the prospects for stability more than five years after a U.S.-led invasion drove the Taliban from power.


In eastern Paktika province, a local district chief was killed in an explosion Wednesday caused by a mine he tried to remove from a road, said Mohammad Akrem Akhpelwak, the provincial governor.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070606/NATO_soldiers_070506/20070606?hub=TopStories

 

[McG]

Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan; no Canadian casualties
Canadian Press
Published: Wednesday, June 06, 2007

KABUL - Two NATO soldiers have been killed while battling militants in southern Afghanistan.

NATO did not release their nationalities or where the combat took place, but the Canadian military in Kandahar says there are no Canadians among the latest casualties

The NATO statement says only that the two soldiers died today in "separate engagements with enemy fighters."

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=71da8dc0-f8a9-4a62-aa80-5ed452efe4df&k=5651

 

[Mike Baker]

Still, even if they are not Canadian, they still have families that are grieving for them.  RIP.

 

[McG]

Nato troops killed in Afghanistan

The troops had died in "separate engagements with enemy fighters", a statement from Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said.

...

The Ministry of Defence later confirmed that one of the two troops killed was British.

The soldier, who has not been named, was shot dead in Helmand province early on Wednesday morning, a statement said.

The nationality of the other soldier has still not been announced.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6726255.stm

 

[teddybear]

RIP soldiers 
Deepest condolances to the families.

 

[BernDawg]

RIP Troops

 

[safeboy43]

R.I.P Troops. We all fight for the common cause 

 

[Jack O.]

May they rest in peace.

 

[Armymedic]

A British and an American soldier, as I read on the news this am.