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

Day : April 24, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Kandahar city	Kandahar					An IED	An IED explodes near a US convoy, injuring 3 US troops – one seriously	Reuters 4/26/04 at 4:32 AM ET

Day : April 25, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
?	Paktika						A large new US air base built on a plateau near border, built in 4 days with all equipment air-dropped, near a village of 20 families	BBC 4/26/04 – A. North; BBC 4/29/04 – A.

Day : April 26, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Panjwai district	Kandahar	2			2		At 11 PM, 50-60 Talibs attack building of the NGO, Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA), killing two men and burning 7 CHA vehicles. 6 soldiers wounded in the attack and 2 Taliban killed. Later, 18 arrests are made	AP 4/26/04 at 11:10 PM – N. Khan; Australian 4/27/04; AlJazeera.net 4/27/04 at 10:48 MT; Khaleej Times/DPA 4/29/04

Day : April 27, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Kandahar city	Kandahar	1					Taliban assassinate Maulana Abdul Bari, a cleric in Kandahar’s Ulema Shura, which supports the Karzai regime	Reuters 4/28/04; Daily Balochistan 4/29/04
Second largest district in province	Uruzgan		2				A Taliban raid at 3 AM results in death of 2 gov’t soldiers, destruction of many vehicles. Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Kandahar reports that Taliban took control of the district	Al Jazeera.net 4/29/04 at 8:36 MT

Day : April 28, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Dai Chopan district	Zabul		2			mine	Mine explodes and kills 2 district officials and wounds 2 others	Reuters 4/28/04
Landai village in the Dand district, south of Kandahar	Kandahar						At night Taliban torch a school recently rebuilt with int’l aid. The night watchman was tied up.	AFP 4/29/04
Thaloqan village in the Panjwai district	Kandahar		5-6				Late Thursday, Taliban kill 5-6 Afghan soldiers on motorcycles. Dead include commander Abdul Razzaq	Reuters 4/30/04 at 2:17 AM ET; AP 4/30/04 – Noor Khan
Village of Mir Sperkay	North Waziristan, Pakistan						US- Afghan troops enter Pakistani village and distribute leaflets offering $2,500 for information leading to arrest of Jalaluddin Haqqani, famous Taliban commander	Dawn 4/30/04
Gunbat village	Paktia		(18)				Takliban attack a US-Afghan convoyt when it passes through Gunbat in the Zormat area. Abdul Latif Hakimi said `18 US and Afghan soldiers were killed in 2 ½ hour firefight.	Jang.news 5/2/04

Day : April 29, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Village of Choto	Helmand		2				Taliban attacked and burned down checkpoint in Choto, killing 2 Afghan soldiers	AP 4/30/04 – Noor Khan
Outside US base in Khost	Khost				1		US convoy is attacked close to base. Jets and helicopters called-in. One attacker who threw grenade is killed.	Al Jazeera.net 4/30/04 at 9:21 AM GMT

Totals for month of May 2004 : between 72-97 persons died from continuing fighting

Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed
9	36-45	7	20-36

Day : May – no day , 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Camp “Blessing Base” near Nangalam village in Pesch Valley	Kunar						~12 US Special Forces and US Marines (3^rd Batt., 6^th Marine Reg.) are at this firebase in the farming valley of Pesch. The base is similar to those of Green Berets in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Camp was so-named after death from an IED of Sgt. Jay Blessing, a Ranger, on November 14, 2003.	Time 5/29/04 – M. Ware; MSNBC.com 4/2/04 – Kari Haus

Day : May 1, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Sahak district	Paktia	1	4			US helicopters	Late Sat., 4 Afghan police guards killed in a US airstrike, another 2 injured. One more friendly fire incident. The incident began when US Special Forces were fired upon by police guarding a school. The firefight destroyed the fotreign0-funded school. Predictably, the US Bagram propaganda center said 4 “militants” were killed.	Reuters 5/2/04 at 07:21 AM ET; AP 5/2/04 at 1:50 PM; St. Petersburg Times 5/5/04;jang.news 5/3/04; Guardian 5/7/04 – K. Foley

Day : May 2, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Forward fire base “Ripley” outside Tirin Kot	Uruzgan						Some 2,700 US Marines (from 22^nd Marine Exped. Unit – MEU) have moved into area occupying a base a few kms from capital city, Tirin Kot in an operation called “Taskforce Linebacker” (note: the football language….where are the cheerleaders?). Linebacker was name of a 1972 US bombing campaign in Vietnam.	Jang.news 5/7/04; Daily Times/AFP 5/6/04; AFT 5/5/04
?	Zabul		4			mine	4 gov’t soldiers killed in a mine blast	Reuters 5/4/04 at 12:09 PM ET; Al Jazeera.net 5/4/04 at 21:24 MT