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Reporting from Landstuhl, Germany, and Helmand - Grim combat statistics that one military doctor called 'unbelievable' show U.S. troops in Afghanistan suffered an unprecedented number of catastrophic injuries last year, including a tripling of amputations of more than one limb.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/us-troops-afghanistan-amputation_n_846381.html



US soldiers are seven times as likely as UK troops to develop post-traumatic stress

Something is happening at the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that mental health experts are finding hard to explain: British and American soldiers appear to be having markedly different reactions to the stress of combat.

http://ind.pn/fe0tno



Five civilians killed in Nato raid: Afghan Report

A probe by Afghan officials has concluded that five people killed by Nato-led troops in a raid in northern Afghanistan this week were civilians, President Hamid Karzais office said.

http://bit.ly/g7Imyb


From Information Clearing House

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Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/08-6



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Karzai
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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