According to U.S. media reports, U.S. President Barack Obama October 28, arrived after midnight at Dover Air Force Base, to have just arrived in Afghanistan killed 18 U.S. citizens pay tribute to the body, and met some of the families of the victims.Body included in the October 26 plane crash killed the seven U.S. soldiers and three law enforcement personnel, as well as by a roadside bomb killed eight American soldiers.
It is reported that Obama take the “Marine One” helicopter at the local time at 12:34 on the 29th arrived in Dover, Delaware airport. He first met in a small church, the families of the victims, took part in the prayers of priests to do the ceremony for the deceased and was back to the White House before dawn.
This month the U.S. launched the largest number of casualties since the war in Afghanistan a month. October 26, the U.S. military a total of three aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, killing 14 U.S. soldiers were killed and 28 wounded.
In response to large-scale suppression by government forces, Pakistan, the Taliban launched tit for tat “human bomb campaign.” However, this does not soften the Pakistani government to the Taliban, “uprooted” determination. The last two days, in the tribal militants and U.S. cooperation with Pakistan army has been close to Taliban leader’s “lair.” The two sides of the “decisive moment” is coming.
Xinhua News Agency, October 9 from Washington, a source said, “The New York Times” site 9, citing a recent U.S. intelligence assessment reported that, according to a rough estimate, the Taliban-led rebel forces in Afghanistan had increased from about 7,000 people in 2006 to the present about 2.5 million people, has almost quadrupled.
Pakistan army action to wipe out the Taliban suffered a major setback on the 20th: a home overlooking the Taliban leaders went so far as the strategic lost it. At the same time, two suicide bombers in the Pakistani capital of the Islamic University campus blew himself up, killing at least six people were killed and 20 injured. The Pakistani government believes that the Department of the bombing the Taliban’s “crazy act of revenge.”
According to October 16 issue of “Global Times” reported that the Taliban in Afghanistan on the 14th open letter to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to seek help, help them to “liberate” Afghanistan, greatly surprised at this attitude so that the outside world.