In a funny move, the U.S. today 'VOWED' it will 'take' a town that it has claimed it is controlling for years. If riducule killed, the U.S. would be 'Rome' today. Funny!

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made a quick visit to troops on the outskirts of Kandahar, declaring the area the “tip of the spear” ahead of the long-promised invasion of the major city and the surrounding province.

The recent attack of five armed heroes of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan at Ansari Square, in the heart of the Kabul city, on last Friday substantiated once again that Mujahideen can daringly target important centers of the internal hireling enemy by successfully evading their security and intelligence chokepoints—still more to  kill a number of internal puppet soldiers and foreign nationals as well as injure many others.

HELMAND, Mar. 07 - There are reports from Helmand province that the number of U.S tanks eliminated as a result of mine blasts in Marjah and other parts of Helmand has risen to eight pushing the American deaths toll to dozens throughout Saturday, Mar. 06.
According to the details, at least a dozen of the U.S soldiers were killed as one of their tank traveling in the coalitions' convoy in Marjah's Sistani area was struck by a planted mine blast which was minutes later followed by another blast that tore apart a vehicle of Afghan soldiers leaving about 7 soldiers dead.
Also Saturday, two straight blasts blast within moments of each other  targeted a tank and a group of U.S soldiers walking to the explosion site to recover the dead from the struck tank, however the death toll in both incident is unclear yet.
In another incident elsewhere in the province, a U.S tank was destroyed in a roadside bomb blast in Khanshin district.
Furthermore, four of the U.S. tanks were destroyed in the roadside bombings in other parts of Marjah, Babaji  and Gerisk district through Saturday which have pushed the number of the U.S. tanks destroyed in Helmand province to eight and their death toll to dozens.
It is to be mentioned that these fatalities and losses came as Gordon Brown, the British prime minister visited Marjah to pay homage to the Britons killed in the Operation Moshtarak in Marja town of Helmand province. (Republished from Alemarah website)

HELMAND, Mar. 02 - Mujahideen's bombings in Helmand's Marjah town separately destroyed three of the U.S tanks through Tuesday.
The report from the region states, one of the U.S tanks while on combat patrol mission got blown up by a planted mine causing the tank to be smashed into pieces, killing all the American soldiers traveling in the struck tank, in Mula Salaam Char Rahi area of Marjah.

For the last two weeks, a 15,000-strong army of NATO, British and American forces has been carrying out military operations in a small are i.e. Marjah which is  located in Nad Ali district. A number of jet bombers of the enemy including unmanned drones and 60 gunship helicopters are taking part in the operations.