{"id":33195,"date":"2011-08-31T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=33195"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T08:28:57","slug":"us-stays-silent-on-64-americans-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=33195","title":{"rendered":"US stays silent on 64 Americans deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 August 28, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The United States has so far stopped short of commenting on a Taliban claim that they killed scores of American forces in Afghanistan on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Taliban claimed on Saturday that 64 US-led troops were killed in two separate attacks they launched in the southern city of Kandahar, a Press TV correspondent reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi said on Saturday that the militants killed 36 American forces in a car bomb attack in front of the US base in Kandahar province and also 28 others were killed in another bombing near the military base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The explosions were so powerful that rocked most of the areas in the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Local officials confirmed that an Afghan civilian was killed and 23 others wounded in the assaults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Witnesses told the Press TV correspondent that US helicopters took the victims away right after the bombings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With the latest deaths, Saturday has become the deadliest single day for US-led foreign forces since the war began in Afghanistan nearly a decade ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">American forces in Afghanistan have been experiencing their deadliest days since the beginning of August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On August 18, a huge explosion reportedly rocked a US military base in eastern Afghanistan and killed at least 27 American soldiers and left dozens wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On August 6, at least 31 US Special Forces were killed after Taliban militants shot down an American helicopter belonging to NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan&#8217;s eastern province of Wardak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The security situation remains fragile in Afghanistan despite the presence of about 150,000 US-led foreign forces in the war-torn country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The increasing number of troop casualties in Afghanistan has caused widespread anger in the US and other NATO member states, undermining public support for the Afghan war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/196185.html\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has yet to officially respond to Taliban claims that 64 American led troops were killed in two separate incidents last Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33302,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions\/33302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}