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While we know the trauma of war and seeing the carnage first hand is horrific, on top of that many of these people see the unprovoked operations on innocent civilians and are forced to participate. That and witnessing the drug running operation, collusion with private contractor killers who are immune to military law, and staged terrorist operations in public places that are blamed on insurgents when it’s of our own doing. You find that out and it will show on your face if you have a conscience. You then become a potential enemy of the operation and target for “friendly fire” like Pat Tillman was. Or, if need be, a convenient “suicide”.

Taliban insurgents armed with rockets and automatic weapons have launched a suicide attack on a hotel in a popular Kabul beauty spot, NATO and police said Friday, with Afghan casualties reported.

As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.

An American soldier says he released the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline. The Army has started a criminal investigation.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan intelligence and especially by NATO, as heavy street fighting between insurgents and security forces came to an end after 18 hours.

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Taliban militants in western Afghanistan have destroyed nine NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led troops in the war-torn country.

While Afghans have expressed outrage over the shooting allegedly carried out by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a Taliban commander told reporters Sunday that he wants the man tried in the country. “We want this soldier to be prosecuted in Afghanistan, and according to Islamic law,” the Taliban leader said. “The Afghans should prosecute him.” He went on to say he was skeptical of reports that the shooting was carried out by only one soldier. “The foreigners and the puppet regime are blind to the truth of what happened here,” said the Taliban official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Relations between the United States and Afghanistan have degenerated recently, prompted by the shooting and the burning of copies of the Quran in February by American soldiers.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday lashed out at the United States for failing to fully cooperate with an investigation into the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers by a U.S. staff sergeant and questioned whether only one soldier could have been involved.