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Afghan Security Forces death rate fives times higher than NATO troops

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KABUL: With the recent surge in Taliban attacks, Afghan soldiers and police death toll numbers at 853, compared with NATO’s 165 causalities. This number chronicles the death rates over the last four months, and according to www.icasulaties.org a website that is focused on military casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Afghan-to-NATO soldier death rate is almost 5 to 1.
 ISAF and the Afghan Interior Ministry have taken note of this surge of insurgent attacks, and according to an ISAF report; “enemy-initiated attacks over the last three months (April-June) are 11 percent higher compared to the same quarter last year.” A US coalition officer said that this June saw the most intensified number of attacks in the past two years with almost 100 assaults every day.
The Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sidiqqi said that the past four months had caused significant suffering for police forces with 635 killed and 1246 wounded. He explained that this surge may have been caused by an increase of their “operations against the enemy,” and resulted in the enemy “intensifying their attacks.” He added that 1730 insurgents have been killed over the same period. It is likely that statistics like these will exacerbate as NATO begins its withdrawal of 130,000 troops ahead of the 2014 deadline.
However Siddiqi said that in 714 raids and operations, some 2575 insurgents including 20 suicide attackers with 35 suicide vests were apprehended, 1730 were killed and 330 others were wounded.
 

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