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enhanced_deficit
11-27-2014, 03:23 PM
Saw this in google images today:

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9e290ad7ca4eb74bf0938bf37b922045fdebbf09/c=56-0-2888-2832&r=x233&c=210x230/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2014/11/24/635524389821466728-XXX-FERGUSON-GRAND-JURY-JMG-4196-68979570.JPG
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www.delmarvanow.com (http://www.delmarvanow.com) 210 × 230
Tavis ...


Goes to this news page:
http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/11/26/remember-sgt-maj-turners-sacrifice/19557391/


http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/80b3121e43f96f0368fc4b2e2ed4c5f1af9a8a4a/c=0-0-960-722&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/Salisbury/2014/11/26/B9315276749Z.1_20141126181210_000+G4R98647G.1-0.jpg
Remember Sgt. Maj. Wardell Turner's great sacrifice
www.delmarvanow.com (http://www.delmarvanow.com) 534 × 401
Today, when you sit down around the table with your loved ones or friends, please remember Sgt. Major Wardell Turner and his family in your prayers.



Not sure how first photo got linked to second in images but this is the news story out today about the man on the right in second photo.

http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/TURNERWARDELLSGM.jpg


Two American Soldiers Killed in Kabul Identified


26 Nov 2014

The two American soldiers killed Monday by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan were a command sergeant major and a decorated paratrooper, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. They were identified as Sgt. Maj. Wardell Turner, 48, of Nanticoke, Maryland, and Spc. Joseph Riley, 27, of Grove City, Ohio.

A suicide bomber rammed the soldiers' vehicle in Kabul. Six civilians were also killed. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, the second suicide vehicle bombing against coalition forces in the Afghan capital this week. On Thursday, another blast killed at least one British service member (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/five-dead-suicide-blast-british-embassy-vehicle-kabul-n257156) and a British embassy worker.

Monday's bombing occurred as the Obama administration revealed it was shifting strategies in Afghanistan — choosing instead to expand combat operations after earlier declaring troops would be pulled from the war-torn country by the end of the year. Under the revised mission, the U.S. military will continue to launch air and ground combat operations

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/two-american-soldiers-killed-suicide-bomber-kabul-identified-n257311


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/kabul-suicide-attack-uk-embassy-six-dead





Related

Obama Extends U.S. Role in Afghan Combat (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463567-Obama-Extends-U-S-Role-in-Afghan-Combat&)

enhanced_deficit
11-28-2014, 01:52 PM
While Ferguson events picture is still hazy, more details out about Afghan violence that killed two Americans.

Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan Bicycle Bomb Blast Were American (http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/nov/25/us-soldiers-killed-afghanistan-bicycle-bomb/)

Several media sources have confirmed the two NATO service members who died (http://homepost.kpbs.org/news/2014/nov/24/nato-troops-killed-afghanistan-attack-bicycle-bomb/) Monday in Afghanistan were American.
The two U.S. soldiers were killed when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded near their vehicle in Kabul.
A "Western security force" told Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/24/us-afghanistan-usa-idUSKCN0J810C20141124) the two troops who died were members of the U.S. Army.


http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/39d6e9e26dd3273cb7167eb4269aa8cd63d1d1d6/c=30-0-930-1200&r=183&c=0-0-180-238/local/-/media/GGM/ArmyTimes/2014/11/26/635526282302889076-Spc.-Joseph-Riley.jpgSpc. Joseph Riley was killed Monday in Afghanistan

puppetmaster
11-28-2014, 02:02 PM
No US solider should ever fight under NATO

enhanced_deficit
11-28-2014, 03:36 PM
No US solider should ever fight under NATO

I thought they were fighting under Obama. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463567-Obama-Extends-U-S-Role-in-Afghan-Combat&)