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By Paul Tait
KABUL (Reuters) - Five troops serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with insurgents in the east, the coalition said, one of the worst daily tolls in a month.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Five troops serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with insurgents in the east, the coalition said, one of the worst daily tolls in a month.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) gave no other details about the clash in the east, including the nationalities of those killed. The majority of troops serving in the volatile east are American.
Earlier on Sunday, ISAF said two of its soldiers had been killed in separate explosions in the south.
The deaths send a sobering message to NATO leaders holding a summit later this week in Lisbon with Afghanistan top of the agenda. Many European NATO leaders are under increasing pressure to justify their continued support for the drawn-out war.
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to review his Afghanistan war strategy in December amid sagging public support, after his Democratic party suffered a mauling in mid-term elections.
Violence across Afghanistan is at its worst since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban nine years ago, with civilian and military casualties at record levels despite the presence of about 150,000 foreign troops.
The Washington Post newspaper reported on Sunday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. military to reduce its visibility and the intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end the use of night raids.
Such raids incite Afghans to join the insurgency, he said.
"The time has come to reduce military operations," Karzai told the Post in an interview. "The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life."
Obama plans to begin withdrawing some U.S. troops from July 2011, and Karzai has set 2014 as the target for Afghanistan to take over complete security responsibility from foreign forces. About 100,000 of the foreign troops in Afghanistan are American.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that they viewed Karzai's 2014 plan as a realistic goal.
CIVILIAN, MILITARY TOLL GROWS
The five casualties on Sunday were the worst suffered by ISAF since October 14, when eight of its troops were killed in five separate incidents.
At least 642 ISAF troops, about 440 of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan in 2010, by far the deadliest year of the war. Three were killed on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the fall of the Taliban in Kabul.
The spike in violence is largely a result of increased NATO operations against the Taliban-led insurgency, and U.S. and NATO commanders have been talking up recent successes.
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Nov 14, 2010 12:53pm EST
Every summer the the multicolored tents of thousands of mountain climbers — many of them wealthy, some not so wealthy — can be seen in large numbers clumped around the challenging mountains, like Mount Everest in Tibet/Nepal, or Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska.
Most of the climbers will fail to make the summit. Every year, some of them die in their attempts. Many, every year, are seriously injured.
Why do they do it? Because they seek the thrill, because they are human. The same reason, today, November 14, Fall season, hundreds of thousands of hunters, are taking to the woods to hunt elk, deer, hogs and ducks. Spending large sums of money for guides, guns, ammo, and supplies.
In Afghanistan, there are no American military draftees. They are all volunteers, just like the mountain climbers and elk hunters. To many, the objective is to “get some”. Those words using the same vernacular used by troops in the American invasion of Vietnam. It means to kill a human. Get some, dude. The ultimate thrill.
Combat tourism. It’s real, but not allowed to be discussed. It’s kept from the press.
AdamSmith
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Nov 14, 2010 1:08pm EST
Karzi wants to see less of our military troops and operations. I agree with him, lets pull out of that God forsaken country and let them kill each other. Do it NOW…
pburgdon
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Nov 14, 2010 2:23pm EST
Afghanistan is a Nato graveyard.
Here’s what a leading British general told the BBC today:
“The West can only contain, not defeat, militant groups such as al-Qaeda, the head of the UK’s armed forces has said.
General Sir David Richards, a former Nato commander in Afghanistan, said Islamist militancy would pose a threat to the UK for at least 30 years.
But he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show a clear-cut victory over militants was not achievable.
The BBC’s Frank Gardner said the comments reflect a “new realism” in UK and US counter-terrorism circles. . . . “
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