A large explosion rips apart an ISAF bus filled with Germans - 6 killed and 31 injured. Killed 1 passerby. Germans have 2,300 troops in the ISAF occupation army.
Islam Online 7/6/03 ;
NYT 6/9/03 - C. Gall ;
Observer 6/8/03-L.Harding
Day : June 8, 2003
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Villages of Namaki and Guldanmiz near Spin Boldak
Kandahar
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Surround villages, killing 2 Taliban @ questionable 'Afghan Kabul state television.'
Jang.news 7/9/03
Day : June 10, 2003
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near U.S. fire base of Shkin and Angoor Adda village
Paktika
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A US patrol is attacked at 3 AM and calls-in B-52s. A 3-hr battle erupts in which according to the Bagram propaganda center "4 people" are killed. US Special Forces then arrest 2 innocent traders who had gone to sell dried fruit in Pakistan.
Reuters 6/10/03 at 04:46 AM EST; jang.news 6/11/03; AP 6/10/03-T. Pitman (at Bagram of course!); NYT 6/11/03-C. Gall; Jihad Unspun 6/13/03.
At night Taliban attackers hurl hand grenade into room where Afghan troops slept. 6 injured. In May 2003, a powerful explosion had ripped through the governor's house and on March 29th Taliban killed a US Special Forces soldier and a US airman here.
Jang.news 6/13/03 ;
Reuters 6/13/03 at 04:40 AM ET;
BBC 3/29/03 at 19:44 GMT
Day : June 17, 2003
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Just north of Deh Rawud on Helmand River
Uruzgan
US Special Forces raid a compound and arrest/abduct 15 persons
AP 6/19/03
Day : June 18, 2003
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hilly district of Paich Darra near Asadabad
Kunar
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US Special Forces and Afghan militia convoy is attacked with rockets about 4 kms from their base, vehicle destroyed by bomb. One report says 3 allied troops killed and 5 injured.
Gulf Daily News 6/19/03;
AFP 6/23/03 at 19:28 PM
PakTribune 6/21/03 at 20:00 PST
Security compound near Asadabad
Kunar
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On the 18th, US troops arrested an Afghan man, held him at their security compound, where he died "from unknown causes" 3 days later.
AFP 6/23/03 at 19:28 PM
the Katcha Ghauri refugee camp on western edge of Peshawar
4 Pakistani policemen assisted by "two White men" (= FBI)
A pre-dawn raid nets 'two suspected Al Qaeda' operatives - a Moroccan, Adil Al-Jazeeri, and a Saudi Abu Naseem. Al-Jazeeri had fled Afghanistan after Taliban collapse. The day before (the 17th) 3 Afghans had been arrested in Lahore. The 5 were "being interrogated" by Pakistan "with int'l assistance."
US troops arrive in 2 dozen vehicles to carry out raids in Nangarhar province. On Thursday (the 19th), 7 rockets had hit the Orgun-e fire base in neighboring Paktia
AP 6/20/03
Day : June 21, 2003
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Two-storey house of US Special Forces on dusty side street of a residential area of Kunduz
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mujahideen
A bomb set off at midnight next to US PRT bldg. In downtown Kunduz. The US house then was hit by a mortar round and small arms fire on Saturday night. US forces fired back. 4 persons arrested/abducted. US troops also fired on a passing car injuring the driver. The Kunduz PRT office had opened in April 2003.
AFP 6/23/03 at 7:50 AM;
CNN.com 6/23/03 at 4:31 GMT citing AP;
CSM 2/27/03: 11 ;
Photo of US Special Forces safe house at AFP 8/31/02.
Kharlachi village on border south of Mt. Sikaram
Kurram Agency, Pakistan
Pak. Paramilitary troops raid house of an Afghan refugee, Mira Jan, late Sat. Night. They find 22 Russian-made missiles. Jan had left a few days before. No arrests.
Dawn 6/24/03 ;
Jang.news 6/24/03
Day : June 21 - , 2003
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Anargi Kandao region of Mohmand tribal contested border area in Pakistan opposite Kunar, Gosta region of Nangarhar
Pakistan, Nangarhar, and Kunar
US - Afghan troops (500 of 82nd Airborne and Hazrat Ali's soldiers - Ali is the favorite US warlord in Jalalabad) move into Afghan side of border as part of 'Operation Unified Resolve'. Trying to block mtn. passes. Pro-Afghan tribesmen put up a fight but were forced to retreat by 2,000 Pak. Troops. On June 18th, US forces had moved into their base in Jalalabad.
AFP 6/24/03 at 4:06 AM ET; Reuters 6/21/03;
Dawn 6/25/03 ; BBC News 6/25/03-R. Yusufzai; Fayetteville Observer 6/26/03-K. Maurer; AP 6/21/03 and 6/22/03-(Todd Pitman at Bagram Base, of course, insofar as Mr. Pitman regularly reported exactly and only what the lt. colonels said); jang,news 6/22/03
