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

Day : March 20, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Near Kabul	Kabul						An unmanned Canadian spycraft, a Sperwer, crashes into a farmer’s fiel;d after taking off from Camp Julien. The Sperwer “broke its nose.”	CTV.ca 3/20/04 at 9:52 AM ET
Near Wana	South Waziristan, Pakistan	12-13					2 vehicles fired upon by Pak troops at a checkpoint, kills 12-13 civilians – including 5 men, 5 women, 3 children – and injuring 7 others. The dead are relatives of tribal, Zain Ullah. The dead included 2 children aged 3 and 5 months	Reuters 3/20/04 at 06:04 GMT; AP 3/21/04 at 2:00 AM- Ahsanullah Wazir; jang.news 3.21/04 – R. Yusufzai who provides much detail; Dawn 3/21/04 – I Khan
?	South Waziristan, Pakistan	11					A van loaded with civilians fleeing the fighting is attacked by a Pak helicopter gunship – killing 5 women, 5 children, and a 70 yr-old man).	Times Union (Knight Ridder) 3/21/04 – Malcolm Garcia

Day : March 21, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Adam Warsak area	South Waziristan, Pakistan				2		2 Chechan fighters seeking to escape encirclement are killed	AP 3/21/04 at 9:24 AM ET

Day : March 22, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Sarwakai village near Wana	South Waziristan, Pakistan		12-20				Disguised militants attack a Pak re-supply convoy, killing 12-20 Pak troops, injuring another 15-22. Convoy was part of the 5,000 Pak troops involved in the area fighting	Jang.news 3/23/04;Dawn 3/23/04; AP 3/23/04 at 5:10 AM; jihadunspun 3/23/04;jang.news 4/1/04 – R. Yusufzai

Day : March 23, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Sisandi village near border	Paktikia	1					A new US Special Ops Forces base at Lwara is built, started construction on March 5, 2004. Firebase is home to 60 US soldiers and 200 of their Afghan militia allies. Close to hamlet of 45 families. Locals very unhappy with US base as it draws fire, as recently when 2 girls were injured (one died on way to Miran Shah hospital).	AP 3/23/04 – N. Khan; AFP 3/27/04
Road near Gardez	Paktia		5				5 Afghan Army soldiers killed, 5 others injured and 4 US troops injured when a device explodes during a training exercise	AP 3/24/04 at 2:40 AM – S. Graham
An army post	Kurram Agency, Pakistan		3-4				Post attacked with rockets at 4:45 AM, killing 3-4 Pak soldiers and injuring another 4	Dawn 3/24/04; Jang.news 3/24/04 – R. Yusufzai
Peshawar	NWFP, Pakistan	1	3				4 rockets land in city at night, injuring 3 persons near Pak paramilitary troop barracks. In nearby Bannu, bomb explodes as mil. Convoy passes bridge – kills 3 policemen and 1 civilian.	AFP 3/24/04; CSM 3/25/04 – O. Tohid

Day : March 24, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Close to US base near airport	Kandahar				1		A jeep carrying US forces attacked by man throwing a had grenade. Firefight kills attacker.	AP 3/24/04 at 2:40 AM – S. Graham; jang.news 3/25/04
Persian Gulf	ships						About 2,000 US Marines from Camp Lejeune (NC) in the Wasp group (7 US sips incl. the Wasp carrier) for use against Al Qaeda and Taliban. On March 31^st , the 2,000 Marines were deployed in the Uruzgan area	Reuters 3/25/04 – W. Dunham; AP 3/31/04 at 5:10 AM – S. Graham

Day : March 26, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Adam Warsak region	South Waziristan, Pakistan		8				8 Pakistani soldiers taken hostage in the convoy attack on Monday, in Serwakai, 20 mi. east of Wana, are found executed.	NYT 3/27/04 – A. Waldman

Day : March 27/28, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Bawari Hotel in Khost	Khost					rocket	A rocket hits hotel at night injuring 3 hosts, one critically	Dawn 3/29/04; jang.news 3/29/04

Day : March 28, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Zamin Dewar army post near Deh Rawud	Uruzgan		3				40 Talibs attack post, kill 2, injure 3 and abduct 10 soldiers. In a separate incident, a suicide bomber trying to attack an army base in Khost was killed when bomb went off early (others say civilian was killed when a hidden bomb exploded)	Jang.news 3/28/04 and 3/29/04; Reuters 3/28/04

Day : March 29, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Jalalabad	Nangarhar				1		A US-Afghan convoy leaving Jalalabad airport is attacked by an assailant with an IED, who is them killed by troops jang.news 3/30/04

Totals for month of April 2004 : between 71-77 persons died from continuing fighting

Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed
6	52-56	1	12