Six Americans Killed in Afghanistan … 3 U.S. Military Service Members, 2 U.S. Civilians and a Doctor

Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan. The attacks and deaths took place on the same day that U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Afghanistan for a visit aimed to assess the level of training that American troops can provide to Afghan security forces after international combat forces complete their withdrawal at the end of 2014. One would say a lot, wouldn’t they? The terrorists are just waiting out the Obama’s troop withdrawal and then at that point Afghanistan will become an “Islamist” killing field.

Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military’s top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said.

In the south, three U.S. service members, two U.S. civilians and the doctor were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives just as a convoy with the international military coalition drove past another convoy of vehicles carrying the governor of Zabul province.

Another American civilian was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement. [...]

Those killed in Zabul province included three members of the military and two U.S. civilians, including at least one employee with the U.S. State Department, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement. Several other Americans and Afghans, possibly as many as nine, were wounded, the official said.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul confirmed that Americans were involved in an attack in Qalat, the capital of Zabul province. Zabul is next to Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, and shares a volatile border with Pakistan.