Good news first today. I received an e mail about an Officer from PEI. His tour of duty complete in Afghanistan and is enroute home. Well done Captain Canada Thanks you.
Hi Robby,
Just to let you know, Islander, Capt. White, Sheldon .J. , stationed at CFB Greenwood has successfully completed his mission in Afghanistan. He will be rejoining his wife and three children in 5 days. God Bless our soldiers!
Sadly 2010 has been a very costly month so far in terms of NATO Casualties.
Six NATO soldiers, including three Americans, were killed Monday in Afghanistan, making it the deadliest day for the international force in more than two months.
The Americans died in a firefight with militants during an operational patrol in southern Afghanistan, U.S. military spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said. He declined to provide on the exact location of the clash or their branch of service pending notification of family members.
The deaths raised to at least 10 the number of U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan so far this year, according to an Associated Press tally.
One French officer was killed during a joint patrol with Afghan troops in Alasay, a valley largely under insurgent control that NATO is trying to reclaim. Another French service member was seriously wounded in the attack some 80 kilometres northeast of Kabul.
There were eight French troops in the patrol, said spokesman Col. Jacky Fouquereau.
A soldier from Cornwall has been killed in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defence said the bomb disposal expert was one of six Nato troops killed in a series of incidents on Monday.
The soldier was killed by an explosion in the Musa Qaleh area of Helmand Province.
He was a member of the 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, part of the Counter-IED Task Force.
The year has had a particularly bloody start for the NATO-led force. Last week, four Americans and one British service member were killed in a single day.
Officials said earlier Monday that bombs killed another American soldier and two Afghan road construction workers in separate attacks Sunday in southern Afghanistan.
The attack occurred a day after a British correspondent and a U.S. marine were killed by a roadside bomb in the same area.
Such a waste of young lives. When one reads items like this, you may see where the extremists have no sense of family nor life as we know it. I do realise that Pakistani Nationals are not all terrorists I am simply trying to show some of the vast cultural differences between Westerners and the illiterate or Extremist views of human life.
Pakistan couple follow witch doctor's request and kill 3 month-old baby in sacrificial ritual THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistani police have arrested a couple on charges of stabbing their 3-month-old baby to death in a black magic ritual they believed would get them rich.
Police officer Hazoor Bukhsh says officers recovered a 3-year-old girl who they feared was also going to be killed.
The couple was arrested Monday in a house in the city of Karachi.
The body of their baby girl was exhumed from their backyard.
Bukhsh says a witch doctor advised them to kill the girl after telling them it would make them rich.
So on this sad note, I close for now wishing all of our NATO allies God speed in their mission.
Remember Everyone Deployed
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
