EXAMINER– Three more U.S. troops fighting for their country were killed Friday,
raising the death toll to 66 in July – the deadliest month in the
9-year war in Afghanistan.
The previous monthly high was in June when 60 were killed. In June there were a total of 102 U.S. and allied deaths, the first time
NATO monthly fatalities reached triple digits. That number went down to
89 in July.
In the latest incidents that occurred Thursday and Friday, a U.S.
service member died in an insurgent attack, two others were killed by a
roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, and three U.S. troops were killed
in the south in two separate roadside bombings.
On Friday a NATO SUV driven by two U.S. contractors was involved in a traffic accident that killed four Afghans.
This led to Afghans rioting outside the American embassy in Kabul. They threw stones, set two vehicles on fire, and chanted “death to America.”
Police fired their weapons in an effort to disperse the crowd. The crowd
burned two foreigners’ vehicles, causing heavy black smoke to rise from
the scene.
“It is our right to raise up our voice and protest when innocent Afghans
are harmed,” said Azizullah, a 25-year-old student, who like many
Afghans uses one name.
He said foreigners were in the vehicle that struck the car, killing the Afghan civilians.
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