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NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers in Badghis
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 16 days ago
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Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen. Afghan authorities were investigating whether an alliance airstrike during an operation Friday...
Tags: U.S, afghans soldiers, Afghanistan, NATO Airstrike Killed, afghans security, NATO Air Strike Kills, Badghis, security forces, friendly fire, badghis province
NYPD looking at futuristic weapons technology
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The New York Police Department is looking into futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another. It is aimed at avoiding the type of shooting that killed a plainclothes police officer in Harlem last week. Police Commissioner...
Tags: New York Police Department, friendly fire, allow officer, futuristic technology, NYPD
Naming a Casualty
Cpl. Kevin Megeney, a 25-year-old reservist from Stellarton, Nova Scotia, died two years ago, of a gunshot wound in the chest, in a medical tent at Kandahar Airport, in Afghanistan. More than 60 other Canadian servicemen have died in combat since...
Tags: Canada, Patterson, friendly fire, privacy, Afghanistan, Mother Jones, Kevin Megeney
Taliban not the only problem in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
Credibility But the serious security problem in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is even able to carry out bold attacks on ministry buildings in the capital, is weakening rebuilding activities...The number-one military commander in the country, American Gen.
Tags: Afghanistan, friendly fire, Helmand
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