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Roadside bomb kills soldier in Afghanistan

  •   Sat, Mar 07 2015 07:01:14 PM

Kabul, March 7 (IANS): A soldier was killed and three others injured when a roadside bomb struck a military vehicle in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Saturday, an official said.

"A mine planted by militants on a road struck a military vehicle in Sangin district at around 4 p.m. today, leaving one soldier dead and injuring three others," Gen. Jilani, an Afghan army commander in the province, told Xinhua news agency.

Notorious for militancy and poppy cultivation, Helmand province has been regarded as a Taliban hotbed in Afghanistan.

Military operations launched by Afghan security forces a couple of months ago have been continuing in parts of the troubled province, including the restive Sangin district.

 
  

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  • RScott, Drake, Colorado, USA

    Sun, Mar 08 2015

    And Helmand was the most pro-American province with its development projects from 1946-78 funding the largest irrigation system in the country, land settlement, extension service and the provincial capital of LashkarGah. With double cropping the primary cash crops of wheat(the green revolution of the 70s), cotton (Brits built the still functioning cotton gin)corn, mung bean, peanuts, etc., all now mostly replaced by opium poppy vis-a-vis inaction and misdirection of the occupation NATO forces and counternarcotics expenditures of some $8 billion."Reconstruction" not addressing the key issue of supporting the ag. economy.

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