Polish army suffers first casualty in Afghanistan
14 Aug 2007 17:14:40 GMT
Officer 28 years old graduate of the 5 years physical academy and 1 officers academy
6 month Turcology / afgan study was ambushed in attack on Polish afgan forces
Taken to us hospital and died on the way.
In Afghanistan there are a lot of regular criminals and the drug smugglers besides former Taliban
Allied forces has do more to stop the opium production and work close with local authorities to repair the country infrastacture water, sewage, schools hospitals and train the Afgan people to more ways to produce agriculture then only Opium. Afghanistan is the world largest producer of opium to make heroine.
Maybe beekeeping is the option.
US has to start to buy the Afghanistan products than only give all the money to Halliburton and KVR
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A Polish soldier was killed Tuesday by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, the first fatality for Poland since it joined the NATO-led security force in March 2002.
Defence Minister Aleksander Szczyglo said that Lukasz Kurowski, 28, had "died in the line of duty" after his convoy was attacked some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from a base in Gardez in Paktia province near the border with Pakistan.
Second Lieutenant Kurowski was taking part in a joint patrol of NATO troops and the Afghan army on Tuesday when his Hummer vehicle came under fire, the Polish defence ministry said.
He was injured by a grenade blast and later died in hospital, the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier Tuesday, security officials in Afghanistan had announced that a NATO soldier had been killed when insurgents ambushed a patrol in the area, without revealing the victim's name and nationality because of standard policy.
Five Afghan soldiers were wounded in the same incident, an Afghan army general told AFP.
Last month, four Polish soldiers were injured by a roadside bomb north of the Afghan capital Kabul.
Polish troops in Afghanistan have recently complained that their vehicles are not sufficiently protected against attacks.
Eleven soldiers were sent home in June after refusing to go on patrol because of what they called "insufficient armouring of the American Hummer vehicles," defence ministry spokesman Jaroslaw Rybak said at the time.
Poland earlier this year increased its existing Afghanistan contingent of around 200 troops to the current 1,200.
But their presence their remains controversial at home, with parliamentary opposition coming from both the left and the far-right.
A June poll of 903 people in Poland found almost 78 percent of respondents opposed to their country's participation in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.
The Poles are part of the 36,000-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which is battling a Taliban-led insurgency.
They are responsible for security in the provinces of Paktika and Ghazni in the southeast of the country.
Polish crack units are also stationed in southern Afghanistan as part of a separate US-led force which is hunting down insurgents.
Kurowski's death brought the number of international troops killed this year to 135, according to an AFP count, most of them in action as the Taliban insurgency has spiralled. Five have been killed since Saturday.
NATO troops are battling the extremist religious Taliban movement, which launched an insurgency months after being removed from government in 2001 in a US-led invasion, and has stepped up attacks over the past year.
Meanwhile in Kabul on Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed US and British claims that Iranian weapons were being supplied to the Taliban.
Afghan turmoil
More WARSAW, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A Polish soldier died on Tuesday when his patrol was attacked near the city of Gardez in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Aleksander Szczyglo told television station TVN24.
The 28-year old Lukasz Kurowski was injured in an exchange of fire and died on the way to hospital. He is the first Pole to be killed from Poland's Afghan military mission, which began last year.
Poland has around 1,100 soldiers in Afghanistan as part of a NATO-led mission to help restore order in the country.
Polish armoured personnel carrier runs over land mine in Afghanistan
Created: Sunday, August 12. 2007
A Polish Rosomak armoured vehicle hit a land mine last night, 40 kilometres from the military base in Sharan, Paktika province, eastern Afghanistan. No Polish soldiers were injured but the blast severely damaged the vehicle.
The Rosomak was on its way to assist US troops under fire from insurgents. The vehicle has since been taken back to base.
The Polish force, which are part of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, has 24 Rosomak armoured personnel carriers which are reinforced with a composite steel outer layer.
Poland sent an additional 1000 troops to Afghanistan this year after an appeal from NATO for reinforcements to tackle a regrouped Taliban.
Polish armoured personnel carrier runs over land mine in Afghanistan
Polish Radio ^ | 12.08.2007
Posted on 08/12/2007 12:19:10 PM PDT by lizol
Polish armoured personnel carrier runs over land mine in Afghanistan
12.08.2007
The Rosomak - a Polish armoured vehicle hit a land mine in eastern Afghanistan, 40 kilometres from the military base in Sharan in the Paktika province. No Polish soldiers were injured although the blast severely damaged the vehicle.
The vehicle was on its way to assist US troops under fire from insurgents when the accident happened. The vehicle has been taken back to base afterwards.
The Polish force serving as a part of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, has 24 Rosomak armoured personnel carriers reinforced with a composite steel outer layer.
Hopefully US military will study why everyone was unhurt, and why, asap
The Poles are tough!!
God Love Them All !
LOL! Amazing no troops injured. Someone quick, call the Pentagon! Tell them to order a few thousand.
God bless Poland for their faithfulness to America and the WOT!!!
You’re right ... might be cheaper and better then those patch-job Hummers that were never designed to be armored.
