The Pentagon has confirmed information about the death of six US troops in Afghanistan after the attack of the Taliban suicide bomber

The US military confirms the death of US troops in Afghanistan. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the servicemen who died on the eve of an attack on a patrol near the US Bagram airbase. Attacked by a suicide bomber patrol. According to the Pentagon, an explosive device claimed the lives of six American soldiers.

RIA News cites a fragment of Ashton Carter’s statement:

I found out with deep regret today that six US servicemen died in Afghanistan on Monday. We are still clarifying the details, but there is information that two more servicemen and a contract worker from the USA were injured. Our military died after a suicide bomber attacked a patrol near Bagram Air Base.

Recall that the responsibility for the attack on the joint US-Afghan patrol took the representatives of the Taliban movement, which recently stepped up their activities in several provinces of Afghanistan. The US Department of State said that "they pray for the dead and their families." According to the latest data, three Afghan soldiers were injured in the blast.

Afghan media reports that a US citizen was killed in Kabul yesterday. Information resource "Haam Press" reports that the alleged killer, who turned out to be a local preacher, has already been detained.

Comments

[INVESTOR]

Created by yourself, grab yourself the earlap.

[Max_Bauder]

Quote: INVESTOR

Created by yourself, grab yourself the earlap.

Exactly, when they fought against the Soviets, they considered them "freedom fighters", and as against them, so immediately "terrorists". It's a pity Russia is not as vile as the United States, otherwise it would quietly supply all sorts of interesting novelties, such as a willow / igla self-propelled gun, mobile mortars, large-caliber machine guns, sniper weapons to the Taliban, so that the Americans would also be shocked and feel on their own skin what it means to be at war from podtizhka.

[amirbek]

someone is playing Russian roulette - and these invaders played shesh-besh ...

[avvg]

At the Pentagon, as always, the losses in Afghanistan among Americans are less than what they actually are.

[Aleksandr72]

Because the Pentagon in the official loss lists includes only US Army personnel who are American citizens. Losses of mercenaries from all kinds of PMCs, which in fact are the main burden of the occupation service, no one in the US military does not consider. These are not military personnel, and most of them are not even American citizens. Why count them.
I have the honor.

[sgazeev]

Quote: Alexander72

Because the Pentagon in the official loss lists includes only US Army personnel who are American citizens. Losses of mercenaries from all kinds of PMCs, which in fact are the main burden of the occupation service, no one in the US military does not consider. These are not military personnel, and most of them are not even American citizens. Why count them.
I have the honor.

Karkal at us, but the answer was.

[72jora72]

Losses of mercenaries from all kinds of PMCs, which in fact are the main burden of the occupation service, no one in the US military does not consider.

PMCs for this, in principle, were created at the time. A fresh example is Ukraine, who can officially prove that they are there in principle, like a joke about a gopher .....

[Mikhail m]

the alleged killer, who turned out to be a local preacher, has already been detained.

The suicide bombing. And who was detained?

[Decathlon]

The attack was in Bagram, the murder was in Kabul ...

[Same lech]

The suicide bombing. And who was detained?

His posthumous spirit ... they will send the poor fellow in GUANTANAMO in a separate cell and every day they will pour tons of water into the mouth through gauze.

[Same lech]

The Taliban have a holiday today ... despite the fact that this is a human tragedy ... I can not sympathize with the US army, since US generals and politicians are our worst enemies and the rest of the world who disagrees with US policy.

The Americans did not greatly sympathize with us when the Turks killed our pilot with the SU-24 ... so there’s a reward on business.

[Akella]

Quote: The same LYOKHA

so what's up and reward

This is all true. But here's what is curious: in Afghanistan, two military forces (the Taliban and a group of the American army) are fighting among themselves, using all sorts of methods and methods of inflicting damage on the enemy against each other. Someone inflicts bomb and missile strikes from the air, someone sends in demolitions and saboteurs. The Taliban often use suicide bombers as saboteurs. But what does the "suicide bomber" have to do with it? Terror is when violence and intimidation is directed against civilians. And if damage is done to an armed adversary, then there can be no talk of terrorism.
But our, Russian, media stupidly continue to repeat the clichés of our Western colleagues. If someone strikes a representative of the armed forces of the Western countries, it is certainly a "terrorist".

[Great-grandfather of Zeus]

And what did the United States achieve in the end? They are not able to defend themselves, and they lie to the whole world that they "control everything" in Afghanistan!

[Turner38]

As a result, their gesheft is considerable, and a couple of hundreds of corpses do not count.

[GSVG 86-88]

I immediately remember the words of our president: "Allah sees everything."

[VNP1958PVN]

Why am I not upset.

[sgazeev]

Quote: VNP1958PVN

Why am I not upset.

[Mikhail Krapivin]

Such news, but my lips are chapped, I can’t smile ...

[BNM]

cover them further

[RUSOIVAN]

here I don’t understand at all: for whom to root?

[Salad]

what is the regularity - if in the Russian / foreign mass media they actively throw in information about the death of Russian military personnel in Syria or about misses / strikes by the air forces of civilian facilities, know that at that time the USA had real losses / misses))

[RuslanNN]

Maybe this is wrong, but the news is good. I remember on the Internet I found reports from the times of the Union War in Afghanistan, as they showed the crushed columns of our dead and satisfied Mujahideen, calling them fighters with the invaders. Evil itself has grown, it now devours them. Nobody called them to Afghanistan, let them die now. The evil empire must be destroyed.

[gukoyan]

Now the Omerikats know what Afghanistan is)

[Comrade Bender]

And what, before they did not even know about it? They are there the first day, how did they deploy their troops?

[rotmistr60]

The Taliban have noticeably intensified. Therefore, six yesterday, ten tomorrow. It is time for Americans to get used to the fact that their actions will not go unanswered.

[Evil 55]

The Soviet Union already passed through this ... Still, America forgot behind a series of bloodless victories of impudent partisans and the green hell of Vietnam ..

[BARKHAN]

If you rephrase the words of the representative of the State Department on the news about the killing of our pilot, then the poor Afghan peasants have the right to protection from American aggression.

[Victor-M]

RIA Novosti cites a fragment of a statement by Ashton Carter:
I deeply regretted learning today that six US troops died in Afghanistan on Monday. We are still figuring out the details, but there is information that two more soldiers and a contract worker from the United States were injured. Our military died after a suicide bomber attacked a patrol near Bagram air base.

Well, why immediately a terrorist, this is your bastard son of a rebel. What you sow is what you need.

[prishelec]

It’s a pity that only six died ... but still good news.

[ovod84]

More such good news.