Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

AP foreign, Monday April 1 2013

KIM GAMEL

Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday.

The killing comes as the monthly U.S. death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season when the Taliban and other insurgents take advantage of improved weather to step up attacks.

Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, was guarding Afghan and U.S. officials meeting in a province near the border with Pakistan when the stabbing occurred last Wednesday, two senior U.S. officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The attack occurred after the soldiers had secured the area for the meeting, but one of the U.S. officials said the youth was not believed to have been a member of the Afghan security forces or in uniform so it was not being classified as an insider attack.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Damn.

[samsingh]

2. disgusting

[grilled onions]

3. I Can't help But Think About Another Cable...

the one in South Pacific who talked and sang about hate and how you have to be carefully taught to hate. What has changed since that musical/movie was out? Sadly very little but location.

[get the red out]

4. We need to get the troops out

Now.

[warrant46]

5. It's past time to leave this Swamp

[awoke_in_2003]

6. we should have never gone in. nt

[libodem]

7. Remember the recent assessment of the

Trillion dollars worth of mineral resources. And we had a pipeline to lay. We needed it worse than China. Adding sarcasm icon because I don't really disagree with you at all.

[KansDem]

11. Guess the "Carpet of gold/carpet of bombs" threat doesn't fly anymore...

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5166.

''At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs','' Brisard said in an interview in Paris.

[libodem]

12. Bombing them back into the stone age

Wasn't far off, considering most of the nation looks like piles of rubble.

[daleo]

13. But there are knives in that rubble.

[libodem]

14. I blame them for the asymetrical warfare tactics

Just as much as Bush blamed the detainees at gitmo for commiting 'suicide' by stuffing material so far down their own throats it could not be extracted. Fair is fair. Huh.
Again:

[awoke_in_2003]

15. War is always about money. nt

[libodem]

16. Sadly, yes

You'd think moral high ground and principle would factor in, but that'd be wrong. My faith in humanity is in a tattered shred.

[geek tragedy]

8. Time to get the hell out.

If there's to be bloodshed in Afghanistan, let it be Afghans against Afghans, not the US and Afghans killing each other.

We've been there far too long, trying to engage in the folly of nation-building for a nation that doesn't want to be built.

[L0oniX]

9. Got to wonder if this is a matter of ...you killed my friend ...I kill you.

USA creates it's own terrorists/enemies when it kills the innocent.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Stabbed with a split infinitive I assume.

.

[obama2terms]

17. Time to go

WTF are we waiting for?