Insurgents in Asadabad throw grenade into crowd

Several Afghan civilians were wounded and another reportedly killed in an attack in Kunar province that also wounded 3 U.S. servicemembers. The attack occurred at approximately 9:15 a.m. local time.

Coalition forces were attempting to free a vehicle that had become stuck when they were attacked with small arms fire. An unknown person from a nearby building threw a grenade, which caused the death and injuries.

U.S. troops treated the wounded Afghan civilians and medically evacuated five of the injured to nearby military and civilian hospitals.

It was the second attack by insurgents on civilians in Asadabad in recent weeks.

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• Kunduz
• Konduz
• Afghanistan
• 82nd Airborne
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[Openduringfreedom]

An the video was shot by the recon blimp. The video helped because at first people were sayin we threw the grenade until we showed the locals the video

[Openduringfreedom]

These were my guys our truck was broke down right outside the fob

[baptist84]

@Vietboy1st Drones

[genpershingagain]

@MrZealot1 Sorry, the story isn't true. General Pershing was very forceful with the locals, but he was fair, and he never did the whole "pigs blood" deal.

[MrZealot1]

I heard about similar tactics when after world war 2 that rebel muslim groups were fighting against the americans in the phillapeans. The americans struggled cause there gorilla tactics. But then a army major rounded 12 rebels up and dipped the bullets in pigs blood in front of them. They then proceeded by executing them with these bullets until it came to the last one guy and set him free to tell his rebel buddies that this was going on and soon after that the rebels stopped!!

[Vietboy1st]

@webnetinternet the video recorded by a recon plant. they tiny one with no pilot. Forgot what they called it.

[stevolous]

damn, I remember that. We heard about that down at Fortress.

[exprez1022]

See I love it when Americans are called cowards. Did that look courageous to you? I'm glad we fight fire with fire. I only wish America was more brutal. No mercy at all against terrorists.

[webnetinternet]

who shot the video?

[hlysne]

Hoping my boy was far away from this...