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

Day : May 16, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Western Kabul	Kabul		(2)				2 Afghan policemen killed early Sunday AM while on patrol – Naqibullah and Mia Khail. Possibly killed by robbers.	PNS 5/17/04

Day : May 17, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Garoi, Chekhel and Urkh areas of Pakistan	Pakistan					missiles	US forces fired 3 missiles into these Pakistani villages, damaging homes, and forcing 7 families to flee.	Jang.news 5/18/04

Day : May 18, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Near Qalat	Zabul		3-4		1-2		Taliban attack a US-Afghan convoy on its way to Mizan district. A 2-3 hour firefight ensues, killing 2-3 Afghan soldiers, 1-2 Taliban. On Monday, another Afghan soldier is killed in Mizan. Taliban occupy the district office for a few hours in classic hit-and-run tactic.	AP 5/18/04; Dawn 5/20/04; Jang news 5/21/04; \Al Jazeera.net 5/20/04 at 12:54 PM GMT
Waza Khaw district	Paktika	1	1		2		Taliban attack gov’t convoy	Jang.news 5/21/o4

Day : May 19, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Qadeen Kot near Lawara	North Waziristan, Pakistan						A house of a Pak. tribal comes under mortar fire from US forces, after a US Special Forces had crossed into Pakistan on a search mission	Jang.news 5/21/04; \NYT 5/22/04 – D. Rohde
road	Farah		2				Taliban kill 2 Afghan policemen returning from escorting UN persons to Herat	NYT 5/22/04 – D. Rohde

Day : May 20, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Jaji Maidan area	Khost					IED	A remote-controlled IED explodes destroying vehicle carrying 6 election workers, who are all injure and brought to US main base in Khost, Camp Salerno.	AP 5/20?04 at 12:30 AM – S. Graham; Jang.news 5/21/04
Tani village south of Khost	Khost	3					A firefight near Tani results in 3 dead militants, according to the US propaganda center at Bagram. Truth is otherwise. In an overnight raid, 3 Afghan civilians in a home are killed when US attack helicopters destroy the 2-story mud home, killing 3 – 2 men and 1 woman - and injuring 2 others. The compliant mainstream media asserts that this “is the first reported incident of civilian deaths in a US attack since January 2004” !!!	BBC 5/21/04 at 15:50 GMT; Reuters 5/21/04 at 04:11 AM ET; jang.news 5/21/04; AP 5/21/04 at 1:30 PM – Amir Shah; Reuters 5/21/04 – K. Sadat; NYT 5/22/04 – D. Rohde

Day : May 21, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Camp Salerno	Khost					rockets	In the PM, rockets strike large US base and injure 4 US soldiers	AP 5/22/04 at 1:50 AM ET; Jang.news 5/23/04

Day : May 22, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Near Waza Khwa	Paktika		1				20 Taliban attack a convoy carrying tractors and generators as it drove towards a remote village in Paktika, Waza Khwa, killing an Afghan soldier and wounding another.	AP 5/25/04 at 10:28 PM

Day : May 23, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Jalalabad Road leading eastward out of Kabul	Kabul			1		rockets	An ISAF 4-vehicle convoy at 9 PM is hit by rockets, killing a Norwegian occupation soldier and injuring 2 others. The leading jeep was hit with RPGs. Norwegians are part of the elite Telemark Battalion sent to Afghanistan in 2003.	Jang.news 5/24/04; AP 5/23/04 at 12”10 PM; AP 5/24/04 ; Aftenpolten news 5/25/04 at 14:40
Los Angeles	USA						Kathy Gannon, veteran correspondent who covered the Afghan U.S. invasion, releases article: “Straight F’s for U.N. in Afghanistan,” Los Angeles Times (May 23, 2004)

Day : May 24-25, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Tirin Kot	Uruzgan		2-3				Taliban attack results in 2-3 dead soldiers and torched gov’t vehicles	Reuters 5/24/04 at 15:48 GMT; AP 5/25/04 at 10:28 PM ET
Hills around Yakchel close to Helmand-Kandahar border	Helmand				3		A firefight ton 24/25^th between Afghan Army and Taliban results in 3 dead Taliban and 4 injured soldiers	Reuters 5/24/04 at 15:48 GMT

Day : May 26, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Arghistan region, 80 kms north of Spin Boldak	Kandahar				8-20		An intense 3-hr battle involving ground forces and US warplanes, 150 Afghan troops attack an alleged camp in Ghbragyan area, resulting in Taliban deaths : Us says 20, but Afghan military says 8. Taliban admit commander Qari Ahmed Ullah is killed	AP 5/25/04 at 10:28 PM ET; CBC News 5/25/04 at 16:46; Swissinfo 5/26/04 at 12:30 AM; Al Jazeera.net 5/29/04 at 2:30 PM GMT; Reuters 5/29/04 at 05:02 AM ET; Jihadunspun 5/28/04