ISTANBUL Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates pledged Friday that the United States would help protect foreign troops in Afghanistan by offering them armored transport vehicles, surveillance systems and electronic equipment to guard against roadside bombs.
For the study, these officials said, General McChrystal told subordinates to find 10percentt savings in troop numbers by identifying inefficiently organized units that could be reassigned to protect population centers, train Afghan security forces and guard against roadside bombs.
(Another thing is that there are few roadside eyesores like telephone poles, guard rails and signs. Also, the roads are owned by the state parks department, which charges no use fee).
The Afghans, who were working as uniformed security guards, hit a roadside bomb in Paktia Province while traveling in a convoy.
"People are fully occupied staying alive", he says with a sigh.Some of the most useful interviews are the easiest: people in the street, roadside vendors, gardeners and security guards, women running shops, residents from townships who have walked two hours to the centre of town, youths who scrape a living by selling avocados and mangoes on the streets.
Three Iraqi national guard soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and an American soldier was killed in Baghdad, officials said.
Afghan officials said roadside bombs killed five policemen and an Afghan guard late Thursday in the south, where thousands of new United States and British troops are trying to secure roads and population centers before the election.
Six Afghan security guards also died Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded as they were driving in the Shinwari district of Parwan Province, according to Gen. Basir Salangi, the provincial governor.
On Wednesday, in addition to the attack in Kabul, two agency guards died while trying to defuse a roadside bomb in Tarinkot, the capital of Oruzgan Province.
"She stopped to rest on the roadside, and that's when the youths who were guarding the cemetery found her".
