Taliban attacks Humvee with IED in Afghanistan

June 09, 2006

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A video was recently released by the media branch of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan showing an attack on an American Humvee in the Afghan province of Kunar. In the video, the preparation of an improvised explosive device (IED), its detonation and subsequent extraction of the injured is shown. Two stretchers can be seen being taken to a waiting helicopter.

There has been no official confirmation by US officials of casualties of deaths resulting from this incident. Kunar is a mountainous province in northwest Afghanistan that borders on Pakistan. It was an area of fierce fighting during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and is also the location where an American CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down in June 2005, killing 19.