[Peace-discuss] Nine mercs killed in AfPak

[C. G. Estabrook]

  [An indication of how Obama-Clinton are running their private war in AfPak.  
--CGE]

       9 mercs killed in Afghanistan
       Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:56:33 GMT

At least nine members of a private security firm have been killed in a roadside 
bombing in eastern Afghanistan, local Afghan officials say.

The bomb blast damaged a car carrying security firm workers in the village of 
Asmar in Kunar province late on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Local officials said the nine people killed were working for a road construction 
company.

No further details on the nationality of the security guards who were killed 
have been disclosed.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, a spokesman for the militant 
group said in a statement.

Mercenaries of the infamous private security firm Xe, formerly known as 
Blackwater, have contracts to provide security in Afghanistan, but the private 
security firm that the nine men worked for has not been identified.

In the June 4 edition of The Wall Street Journal, it was reported that Xe's most 
recent government contract tasked the group with protecting CIA bases in 
Afghanistan.

The report was confirmed at the end of June by Central Intelligence Agency 
Director Leon Panetta during a TV interview, the newspaper wrote.

Blackwater/Xe mercs were hated by the Iraqis during their time in that country 
because they were able to kill many civilians with impunity.

Over the past few months, public opinion has been turning against the war in the 
United States and other countries, and thus US President Barack Obama's upbeat 
assessments about progress in the Afghan war will probably not go down well at 
home or abroad.

The death toll for US service members stationed in Afghanistan reached 66 for 
the month of July 2010, making it the deadliest month for US troops deployed in 
the Central Asian nation since the conflict began in October 2001.

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