More Deaths in Afghanistan

[Baitman]

Just read this and though I would share

  The soldiers that gave their lives

French paratroopers ambushed near Kabul; 10 killed, 21 wounded

Amir Shah, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SUROBI, Afghanistan - Insurgents have ambushed French paratroopers in a deadly battled close to Kabul, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 21 in what officials said Tuesday was the biggest single combat loss by international forces in Afghanistan in more than three years.

In a separate co-ordinated attack Tuesday, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Military spokesman said the French soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission Monday in the Surobi district, about 50 kilometres east of the Afghan capital, when they were attacked by about 100 insurgents.

NATO sent in backup forces and claimed a "large number" of the attackers had been killed a the three-hour gunbattle.

An Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four of the French soldiers were killed after having being captured by the insurgents. 

The death toll could heighten domestic opposition in France to President Nicloas Sarkozy's plan to increase the French contingent in Afghanistan by some 700 troops by the end of this month to a total of 2,600.

[FrodeMk3]

  to the Frenchmen. I do hope people in the U.S. quit reffering to them as "cheese-eating surrender monkey's" after this.

[007Rusty]

                                 

[ODBAL]

to the Frenchmen. I do hope people in the U.S. quit reffering to them as "cheese-eating surrender monkey's" after this.

  Brave soldiers who gave all.  (And I refer to them as rifle-droppers)

[Yenny]

KIA #

[FrodeMk3]

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KIA #

What's the timeframe of that chart?

[Yenny]

That's the most recent chart, which included the 10 new KIA from the French force. I'm guessing this would be since the Afgan war started.

[soda72]

 

[Baitman]

This is the part that bothers me

An Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four of the French soldiers were killed after having being captured by the insurgents.

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[Yeager]

never surrender to a brutal enemy.

<S> France!

[Toad]

Kipling wrote it long ago but it's still true:

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. "

<S>  The French paras

[Redlegs]

 

[Rollins]

Be interested to find out if they were French regulars or Foreign Legion.

[Yenny]

Be interested to find out if they were French regulars or Foreign Legion.

Does it really matters though?

[Hornet33]

Just read that 9 of them were regular French Army and 1 from the Legion.