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

Day : July 2-3, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Day Chopan area	Zabul				12		Fierce fighting leads to 12 dead Taliban and ~12 captured, including according to the U.S. propaganda center at Bagram, one commander Sediqullah Sediqi. But Taliban’s Abdul Latif Hakimi says Sediqi is alive and well, though a Mullah Taib was captured on Sat. AM on a motorbike.	Jang.news 7/3/04; AFP 7/3/04 at 5:12 AM ET

Day : June 2, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Deh Rawud area	Uruzgan	3					Taliban attack gov’t office at 2:30 AM on Thur/Fri., killing a storekeeper and 2 other civilians, injuring 2 soldiers	Jang.news 7/3/04; AFP 7/3/04 at 5:12 AM ET

Day : June 3, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Afshah neighborhood	Kabul						A “bomb factory” explodes, injuring 6. Police arrest 3. Bomb materials allegedly from Pakistan. In Sept. 2002, 26 civilians died and over 150 were injured in a bomb blast at a busy intersection in Kabul.	SwissInfo 7/4/04 at 10:30 AM; Reuters 7/4/04

Day : July 4, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Hospital in Jalalabad	Nangarhar	1				bomb	A third Afghan woman poll worker dies of wounds from earlier bomb attack on June 16^th	AFP 7/4/04Reuters 7/4/04;
Zormat area	Paktia					IED	An IED explodes and injures a U.S. occupation soldier	Reuters 7/4/04

Day : July 5, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Wealthy neighborhood of Kart-e-Parwan	Kabul				3		Afghan forces arrest the Jack Idema gang – 3 Americans and their 4 Afghan accomplices – who killed at least 3 “Prisoners,” tortured others (incl. hanging them by their feet).	BBC 7/7/04; Reuters 7/7/04;AP 7/8/04 – S. Graham; Guardian 7/9/04 – D. Campbell and K. Logan; NYT 7/11/04 – D. Rohde
Northeast of Qalat	Zabul				1		US-led troops in firefight July 7-9^th, one dead militant and 3 injured, one US soldier injured	AP 7/10/04 at 3:20 PM – N. Khan

Day : July 6, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Dara-i-Noor, 70 kms north of Kandahar	Kandahar						Afghan forces capture commander Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid and an associate in an evening raid upon a compound. Mujahid (under torture?) admits to distributing $1 million to Taliban supporters. He was a Taliban commander in Takhar province and served as secretary to Mullah Omar until 2001.	ChinaDaily 7/8/04 at 08:34; News24.com 8/7/04 at 13:17; DPA 7/7/04

Day : July 7, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Chakab area	Farah		6				Taliban try to abduct 4 Turkish engineers, but a firefight results in which 6 policemen are killed, 4 others injured who were guarding the road construction team	Reuters 7/7/04 and 7/9/04;The Peninsula (Qatar) 7/8/04
Deh Rawud area	Uruzgan				1		4-5 militants try to run a road block, Afghan troops fire and kill 1.	Reuters 7/7/04

Day : July 8, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Vehicle on road	Nangarhar	1				mine	At 9 AM a mine goes off under an election commission vehicle, killing 1 woman and wounding 2 men	Jang.news 7/9/04; BBC News 7/8/04 at 13:31 GMT

Day : July 9, 2004

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Borjak border post on Iranian border	Farah		3				3 Afghan gov’t soldiers killed in a clash between factions	Reuters 7/9/04; Al Jazeera 7/10/04
Saminar village between Gereshk and Nowzad	Helmand		12				Taliban attack gov’t post, killing 12 Afghan soldiers. In another attack in Zabul’s Mizan district, Taliban overpower gov’t patrol and abduct 10 Afghan soldiers	Jang.news 7/10/04
Bala Murghab district	Badghis	1					Taliban attack election workers, killing 1 and injuring two	Jang.news 7/10/04
Deh-i-Yak district	Ghazni		2				Taliban attack district headquarters, killing 2 Afghan soldiers, occupied bldg overnight and fled in the morning	Jang.news 7/10/04
Maiwand area	Kandahar						Taliban bomb a US-built boys primary school recently built by US troops, torching it totally	Reuters 7/10/04; AP 7/10/04 at 3:20 PM – Noor Khan
Border village northeastof Spin Boldak	Kandahar		4		1-3		40-50 Taliban attack Afghan soldiers at 2 checkpoints early Sat and 1-3 Talibs killed and 4 gov’t soldiers	Reuters 7/10/04 at 7:03 AM ET; AP 7/10/04 at 3:20 PM – Noor Khan
Mizan district	Zabul						Taliban kidnap 15 villagers but release them on Saturday	AP 7/10/04 at 3:20 PM – Noor Khan
Desert area around Gereshk	Helmand		1				Taliban in 3 vehicles attack checkpoint, killing 1 Afghan soldier and injuring 2 others, 3 Talibs injured	AP 7/10/04 at 3:20 PM – Noor Khan; Reuters 7/10/04 at 7:03 AM ET