Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:19:56 GMT Year 2010 is set to become the worst ever in terms of the number of Americans wounded in Afghanistan with over 2,000 US soldiers injured in the first half. According to figures reloaded by the Pentagon, that is four times the number of US troopers wounded in the same period last year. The number is also approaching the injury tally for the entire 2009, ABC News reported. 2010 is already on track to be the deadliest year for US-led troops in Afghanistan. Over 350 foreign troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year, which is also expected to set the record for the number of foreign troops killed. A total of 520 foreign soldiers died in the country in 2009. Official have admitted that the number of both fatalities and wounded this year will continue to rise. Analysts say that is mostly because more US-led troops are being deployed in the areas controlled by the Taliban. Some 140,000 US-led troops are currently stationed Afghanistan. A further 10,000 are expected to be deployed there in the coming weeks. The mounting death toll has caused public support to plummet for the Afghan war across Europe and the US. Afghan war contractors die unreported Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:40:36 GMT A report by the US Congress says private security contractors in Afghanistan are being killed four times more than US-led troops in the war-torn country. The study says that unlike the death of a soldier, contractor deaths go almost entirely unreported. The vast majority of these contractors are Afghans. Most of them are said to have been killed guarding aid and military convoys. However, the exact details of deaths involving contractors are rarely investigated. Analysts say many Afghan contractors are vulnerable because they often lack the armored vehicles that US troops use. Two-hundred and sixty contractors have been killed in a ten-month period ending April 2010. The figure is likely to continue to rise as the US military retains more and more private security contractors. This comes as the Afghanistan Rights Monitor said in its latest report that 1,200 violent incidents in the month of June had been recorded -- this is the highest figure in any single month since 2002. The violent incidents and rising casualties in Afghanistan come despite a massive troop surge in the war-torn country. Increasing violence against civilians has led to a sharp decline in support for the presence of US-led forces in the country. |
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