U.S. Footprints in Central/South Asia ─ WAR

Re-reported, compiled, by Carolyn Bennett
Casualty sites reporting
February 19, 2010 casualty sites reporting (accurate totals unknown)

• Anti-war dot com March 19, 2003 ─ [Since the Obama inauguration January 20, 2009: 148] Wounded 31,648-100,000; U.S. veterans with brain injuries 320,000; Suicides 18 a day http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
• Iraq Body Count figures: 95,412-104,103, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
• ICasualties IRAQ: 4,376 U.S., 4,694 Coalition; AFGHANISTAN: 998 U.S., 1,655 Coalition http://icasualties.org/oif/
• Just Foreign Policy: [not current] 1,366,350 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq

Bloodletting
News from Middle East/Central/South Asia WAR

February 19
AFGHANISTAN
Six NATO soldiers have died on the sixth day of a military offensive to gain control of a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. The deaths on Thursday bring the total to 12 one of whom is an Afghan soldier. These latest deaths come a day after a NATO air strike ‘mistakenly’ killed at least seven Afghan police officers and wounded two others in Imam Sahib District of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan.

February 19
PAKISTAN
The brother of a senior pro-Taliban commander died following a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan. Mohammed Haqqani and a number of other associates of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of the so-called Haqqani network, were said to have died today in a compound in North Waziristan.

At least 29 people died and dozens were wounded in an explosion at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan. This attack on in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border came hours after the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, arrived for a meeting with Pakistan’s prime minister in the capital Islamabad.

February 19
IRAQ
─ The U.S. government has changed the name of the Iraq invasion/occupation from “Operation Iraqi Freedom” to “Operation New Dawn,” shamelessly taking the same name as used by U.S. forces in their November 2004 U.S. attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. That attack left hundreds of Iraqi civilians dead and thousands more displaced.

February 18
In the Iraqi city of Ramadi eleven people died on Thursday, among them four police officers and a young girl; the deaths followed a suicide bombing. Fifteen people suffered wounds.


Sources
“NATO troops killed in Afghan push,” http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201021925143887757.html
“U.S. drone kills Taliban supporters,” http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/2010219122853435538.html
“Blast as Holbrooke visits Pakistan,” http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/2010218232824418823.html
“U.S. Changes Name of Iraq War,” February 19, 2010, http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/19/headlines
“Bomber hits checkpoint,” http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/02/201021810496996936.html