A day-to-Day Chronicle of Afghanistan's Guerrilla and Civil War, June 2003 – Present

Day : April 12, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Verona	ITALY						9 members of Afghanistan’s nat’l football team abscond, believed fleeing to brighter futures in Germany. Game at Verona was A’s team first appearance in Europe in 20 years.	AP 4/13/04 ; BBC 4/13/04 at 15:53 GMT

Day : April 13, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Mizan district	Zabul		11				Taliban ambush and kill deputy chief of Mizan district, Yar Mohammed, and 9 of his soldiers. One attacker is killed.	Reuters 4/14/04; VOA 4/15/04; BBC 4/15/04 at 09:08 GMT; Dawn 4/16/04; Newsobserver.com citing AP 4/15/05 – Noor Khan

Day : April 14, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Birmal district	Paktika		2-7				Five disguised Taliban stop a vehicle and ask if people support the Karzai regime. Upon saying yes, the occupants are executed. Birmal is not controlled by Karzai forces.	AFP 4/14/04 ; Reuters 4/14/04; BBC 4/15/04 at 09:08 GMT
US military base	Kandahar	1	3				A bomb explodes outside the base, killing General Salim Khan, a senior police officer and his 2 bodyguards. Bomb was planted in a cart. A civilian also killed.

Day : April 14/15, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Checkpoint near Orgun-E	Paktika						US forces fire upon a car at a road block, injuring 4-5 civilians.	Newsobserver.com 4/15/04 at 6:04 AM EDT; Reuters 4/16/04 ; AlJazeera.net 4/16/04 at 15:33 MT

Day : April 16, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Security checkpoint at Del Aram road	Nimroz		8				Taliban in 3 station wagons attack and kill 8 Afghan soldiers late on Friday night.	Reuters 4/17/04 at 11:59 AM ET; Shia News 4/18./04
Shah Joy area	Zabul						Taliban kidnap 5 school teachers in the Shah Joy district	RFE/RL 4/19/04

Day : April 18, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Mazar-i-Sharif	Balkh		3				Attacker stabs to-death 3 policemen	Dawn 4/19.04 citing AFP

Day : April 20-21, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Around Kabul	Kabul						In 24 hrs three bombs are found and defused - two close to the Intercontinental Hotel	Canadian Press 4/21/04

Day : April 21, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Spin Boldak	Kandahar	1	1			bomb	Bomb explodes outside office where officials are meeting, incl. Kandahar governor Khaled Pashtun, kills Afghan soldier and a young girl, injures 2 others.	Reuters 4/21/04; VOA 4/22/04

Day : April 21, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Tangi mountains	Zabul				2		US forces in firefight with Taliban. 2 Talibs killed and 2 arrested. In Kabul, 18 persons	AP 4/22/04 at 3:33 AM EDT – P. Haven; BBC 4/22/04 at 09:47 GMT – A. North
Bazaar in Kandahar city	Kandahar				1	bomb	Bomb goes off in the evening damaging store and killing suicide attacker	AP 4/22/04 at 3:33 AM EDT – P. Haven; VOA 4/22/04

Day : April 22, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
?	Afghanistan						In an interview with Pashto Service of Radio Teheran, Mullah Dadullah said his fighters control 26 rural districts in southern and southwestern Afghanistan. Dadullah also stressed how western media have not reported on “ground reality” in Afghanistan – a very good point which this data base seeks to correct !	Jang.news 4/23/04
Near Sperah, 25 mi southwest of US base at Khost	Khost	1		1			A US Army Ranger patrol is ambushed, killing one US Ranger (Pat Tillman), injuring 3 others and killing an Afghan soldier.	AP 4/23/04
Kandahar city	Kandahar					IED	A IED hidden in a 44-gallon yellow drum used as a traffic control explodes as a UN convoy with election workers passes by. The UN later temporarily suspended operations.	UN News Centre 4/26/04
Qalat	Zabul						A new PRT unit is opened	US Embassy in Kabul 4/22/04

Day : April 23, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
An int’l aid NGO compound in the Panjwai district	Kandahar						Armed men burst into compound of the Central Asia Development group, and torch 8 vehicles	Dawn 4/24/04
Prison in Qalat	Zabul						3 senior Taliban commanders escape from the jail	RFE/RL 4/26/04 – A. Tarzai