Afghan Roadside Bomb Kills 4 U.S. Marines

Hundreds Of Inmates Escape As Taliban Attacks Prison

(AP)  A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said.

The bomb in the western province of Farah targeted Marines helping to train Afghanistan's fledgling police force, said U.S. spokesman Lt. Col. David Johnson. One other Marine was wounded in the attack.

Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment based in Twentynine Palms, California, arrived in Afghanistan earlier this year and were sent to southern and western Afghanistan to train police.

"The mission of the 2-7 Marines was to train and advise and mentor the Afghan National Police as part of the overall police reform strategy being employed here," said Johnson. "They're down there dedicating themselves to help create an institution that serves and protects the people of that region."

The bombing comes one day after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told his counterparts in Europe that for the first time, the monthly total of American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan exceeded the toll in Iraq during May.

The four deaths bring to at least 44 the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year, according to an Associated Press count. No more than two U.S. personnel had been killed in any one attack in Afghanistan this year, according to the AP tally.


Taliban Attack On Prison Prompts Mass Escape

About 870 prisoners escaped during a Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and demolished a prison floor, Afghan officials said Saturday.

The police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said 390 Taliban prisoners were among those who fled the prison during the attack late Friday.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force put the number of escapees slightly higher, at around 1,100, according to spokesman Brig. Gen. Carlos Branco. He conceded that the assault was a success.

"We admit it," Branco said. "Their guys did the job properly in that sense, but it does not have a strategic impact. We should not draw any conclusion about the deterioration of the military operations in the area. We should not draw any conclusion about the strength of the Taliban."

The complex attack included a truck bombing at the main gate, a suicide bomber who struck a back wall and rockets fired from inside the prison courtyard, setting off a series of explosions that rattled Kandahar, the country's second biggest city.

The rockets demolished an upper prison floor, said Mohammad Qasim Hashimzai, a deputy minister at the Justice Ministry. Nine police were killed in the attack, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary.

There were no indications that the militants received help from the inside, but as a precaution the prison's chief official, Abdul Qabir, was placed under investigation for possible involvement, Hashimzai said.

A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said 30 insurgents on motorbikes and two suicide bombers attacked Sarposa Prison.

NATO was providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to help track fleeing militants, Branco said.

Afghan officials warned that the Taliban essentially boosted its force by 400 fighters because of the prison break, but Branco said NATO officials didn't think it would change the military situation.

"OK, they got some more fighters, more shooters," Branco said. "These guys who escaped from the prison are not going to change the operational tempo and they do not provide the Taliban with operational initiative."

A man who claimed to be one of the militants who escaped, Abdul Nafai, called an Associated Press reporter and said the insurgents had minibuses waiting outside the prison during the attack and that dozens of militants fled in the vehicles. Other witnesses and officials said the militants fled on foot into pomegranate and grape groves behind the prison.

Hashimzai said the jail did not meet international minimum standards for a prison. The Kandahar facility was not built as a prison but had been modified into one, he said.

A delegation of deputy ministers from the Justice and Interior ministries left for Kandahar early Saturday.

"Plans are under way to renovate all the prisons around the country," said Hashimzai. "Kandahar was one of them, but unfortunately what happened last night is cause for concern."

Kandahar was the Taliban's former stronghold and its province has been the scene of fierce fighting in the past two years between insurgents and NATO troops, primarily from Canada and the United States.

Qabir, the chief of Kandahar's Sarposa Prison, said the assault began when a tanker truck full of explosives detonated at the prison's main entrance, wrecking the gate and a police post, killing all the officers inside.

Soon after, a suicide bomber on foot blasted a hole in the back of the prison, Qabir said.

Ahmadi, the Taliban spokesman, said militants had been planning the assault for two months.

Canadian soldiers with NATO's International Security Assistance Force helped provide a security cordon after the attack.

Last month, some 200 Taliban suspects at the prison ended a weeklong hunger strike after a parliamentary delegation promised that their cases would be reviewed.

[terrorislami]

HUSSEIN IS SOFT ON FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,

HELL HIS KENYAN FAMILY AND TRIBE ARE FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,

Obama''s Cousin Charged With Ethnic Cleansing

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/great-obamas-cousin-charged-with-ethnic.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7192958.stm

Obama''s relative linked to Ethnic Cleansing in Kenya

http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-relative-linked-to-ethnic.html

Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957451/posts

Ten Obvious Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Top-10-Reasons.htm

Kenya Muslim Violence Pictorial *Warning Graphic*

Africa, Kenya, Muslims%u2026nothing more needs to be said%u2026
http://patdollard.com/2008/01/kenya-muslim-violence-pictorial-warning-graphic/

The Kenyan jihad
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/433766/the-kenyan-jihad.thtml

nothing new,,, more radical muslims ethnically cleansing non-muslims

19 Burned to Death in Violence in Kenya
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960644/posts

[terrorislami]

HUSSEIN IS SOFT ON FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,

HELL HIS KENYAN FAMILY AND TRIBE ARE FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,

Obama Sides With Radical Islamists

The magnitude of difference between the two candidates running in our presidential election could not be more stark! After reading the statements of both Obama and McCain regarding the horrible Supreme Court 5-4 decision to allow Gitmo detainees the right to be tried in civilian courts, we can clearly see what a flawed, unfortunate, and terrible direction Obama would take this country if [God forbid!!]elected in November.

Obama''s statement:

Barack Obama statement on the Supreme Court''s 5-4 decision today extending civilian legal protections to terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo Bay:

Um...er...earth to Obama? Foreign terrorists caught in battle against our forces during war have never been eligible for "habeas corpus"! They are not covered by the Constitution of the United States of America. So...what "rule of law" are you referring to?
http://talkwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-sides-with-radical-islamists.html

[hoseobama]

Proof: http://tinyurl.com/5pgyqb

[hoseobama]

neoconism - your hero, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, isn''t he the same guy that was expressing solidarity with Hugo Chavez, as Dennis believed, "We have every expectation that on August 16 Venezuelan relations with the U.S. government will begin to improve."

This jerk is nothing more than a liberal crybaby making false acusations which have had a history of being wrong and harmful to the US.

[terrorislami]

RACIST CBS PLAYS THE RACE CARD,,,

CBS Poll: Ready For A Black President?
Poll Finds That Most Americans Believe The Country Is Ready - And They Didn''t Eight Years Ago
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/04/opinion/polls/main4151937.shtml#ccmm

***,,, did we not already have a black president???

did they not say wet willy kkklowntoon was the first black president???

hahaha

are blacks playing the race card on america???

Obama gets 92 percent of the black vote

Clyburn Warns Democratic Party: African Americans Matter
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/25/clyburn_warns_democratic_party.html?hpid=topnews

POLL: READY FOR A MARXIST PRESIDENT???

POLL: READY FOR A RACIST PRESIDENT???

POLL: READY FOR A PRESIDENT THAT BELONGS TO A RACIST ANTI JEW AND ANTI WHITEY CHURCH???

POLL: READY FOR A PRESIDENT THAT HAD A STAFF MEMBER THAT CONTRIBUTES MONEY TO HAMAS???

POLL: READY FOR A PRESIDENT THAT HAS HAD MEETINGS WITH HEZBOLLAH???

POLL: READY FOR A PRESIDENT THAT HAS NATION OF TERRORISLAM MEMBERS ON HIS STAFF???

POLL: READY FOR A PRO FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM PRESIDENT???

POLL: READY FOR A FOR A PRESIDENT THAT HATES AMERICA???

POLL: READY FOR A PRESIDENT THAT TOOK THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM PLEDGE TO ONLY REPRESENT AFRICAN AMERICANS???

[terrorislami]

EXPOSE HUSSEIN

http://www.exposeobama.com/obamaislam.html

[watcher269-2009]

Another Bush F-Up in hi sPrivate war- Where is this on CBS No News?

The GREAT ESCAPE! Hahahahahah

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan %u2014 U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after a sophisticated Taliban assault that even NATO conceded was a success for the militants.

A roadside bomb, meanwhile, killed four U.S. Marines sent to southwestern Afghanistan to help train the country''''s fledgling police. The deadliest attack on American forces this year came one day after the U.S. defense secretary highlighted the fact that more American and allied troops were killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq last month.

Afghanistan''''s deputy interior minister, Munid Mangal, said about 1,000 prisoners were housed in Kandahar''''s Sarposa Prison when dozens of militants on motorbikes attacked the facility late Friday. Seven police and several prisoners died in the assault, he said.

[terrorislami]

Posted by neoconism at 04:06 AM : Jun 15, 2008

hahaha

idiot left wingnut koolaid drinking barking moonbat,,, LOL

hahaha

[terrorislami]

Posted by j-whitman at 10:51 PM : Jun 14, 2008

TAKE NO PRISONERS,,,

we have defeated fascist nazi terrorislam before,,,

after america became a country,,, fascist nazi terrorislam demanded that america pay protection money or they would attack americas ships and enslave all on board,,,

thomas jefferson and james madison was having non of that,,, and they sent americas military to kick fascist nazi terrorislams arses in barbary war one and barbary war two,,, why two wars,,, fascist nazi terrorislamists break treaties,,, sound familiar??? can you say iraq,,,

It is a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none. President James Madison

[Latrocinor]

bhoogren,,, But, what whould you know ????

Posted by j-whitman
.. .. ..

I know things j-whitman. Everyone does.

I have been in meetings that would leave you quiet, introspective, terrified and very humbled.

I have seen things you would tremble over for many long days and nights.

But this isn''t about me j-whitman.

Thank you for the comic relief. I am grateful for the pleasure your innocence provides me. You are a blessing and a curse but I am grateful for your existence and the distraction it provides.