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Taliban with Rochet Propeller

A NATO helicopter went down in Afghanistan, killing thirty-one American soldiers, the office of president Hamid Karzai announced on Saturday. This accident, for whom Taliban took responsibility immediately, is the largest loss of lives amid the American troops in one incident since the war started 10 years ago.
According to the NATO’s  International Security Assistance Force, the helicopter was brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade, in the Sayedabad district, in the Wardak province, west of Kabul.
The crash followed a firefight that left seven Afghan civilians dead. It happened past midnight. NATO announced that recovery operations were under way, and that the zone has been isolated.
Afghan president’s office announced that president Obama and the families of those who died in the incident were offered condolences.
This kind of incident is rather rare in Afghanistan, where helicopters go down mostly because of bad weather conditions or mechanical problems rather than being taken down by different kinds of weapons.
Taliban announced they had been tipped off to a night raid attack, and were prepared for the ambush. The place where the chopper went down is a valley with a lot of insurgent activity going on.
According to the statement made by the Taliban, which was rather detailed, a fierce fight is described prior to the downing of the chopper, and a mention is made about the demise of eight Taliban “martyrs.”
Over the past two years, targeted night attacks have been the most efficient means to fight the Taliban, causing significant damage to their leadership structure, even though sometimes the attacks were affecting civilians, causing the outrage of the Afghan president, who called them off in more than one occasion because they place the lives of bystanders at risk.

U.S. Military Helicopter

Situation is complicating in the Asian country months before the U.S. troops commence their withdrawal, in accordance to the plan tabled at the NATO reunion last year in Lisbon, when a multiphase drawdown was accepted with the deadline 2014.
The first combatant units are expected to leave by the end of this year, from both American troops stationed here and from the French.
This prompted the leaders of the coalition force to demand a all-out attack against the Taliban in hopes that they could be neutralized before the troops left the country.
The Taliban on the other hand are intensifying their presence in Afghanistan by staging attacks on symbolic targets, thus displaying their force and the capacity to take back the territory lost in 2001 as soon as the American leave. Or even sooner.
The half-brother of the president himself was killed by them, and then a presidential advisor. The most important hit was against the mayor of Kandahar, considered by many a man of vision and great future.
Police headquarters, civilians or American military have all became targets for the Taliban, whose return to power is anticipated even by Washington, which urged India to make Afghanistan its business after the American withdrawal and participate in a solution that would keep this country from reverting to the fundamentalist and terrorist abode it was before the invasion in 2001.

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