10 NATO Soldiers Die in Afghanistan

[undeterred]

By ROD NORDLAND
Published: June 7, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents killed 10 NATO soldiers on Monday, seven of them Americans, military officials said. It was the worst single day for the foreign forces operating in Afghanistan in the past seven months.

The deaths came in five separate attacks in the south and east of the country, according to statements from the International Security Assistance Force, as the NATO force in Afghanistan is known.

In addition, a civilian American security guard was killed Monday, along with another guard whose nationality was not immediately clear, in a suicide attack on the police training center in the southern city of Kandahar.

Five of the American soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb, known as a improvised explosive device or I.E.D., in eastern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the American military, Lt. Col. Joseph T. Breasseale, confirmed. Two other American soldiers were killed by an I.E.D. in southern Afghanistan, he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/world/asia/08kabul.html

Soldiers being blown to bits for what?

[BeFree]

1. Rush Limbaugh just got married

and some fella named Elton played a million dollar gig.

There's some news for ya!!

RIP soldiers. RIP. All the rest of you soldiers over there, know that I want you to come home tonight.