Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan Wounded Four US Service Members

Suicide bomber injures 4 US troops in Kandahar

Stars and Stripes

November 13, 2017

KABUL, Afghanistan — Four U.S. servicemembers were injured Monday when a suicide bomber struck a military convoy in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, officials said.

The incident occurred near Kandahar Air Field, where U.S. and coalition forces are based, said Qudratullah Khushbakht, a spokesman for the province’s governor.

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Taliban Suicide Bomber Ends Life of Teacher in Afghanistan

Chicago native killed in Afghanistan blast
American University employee remembered for fearlessness, passion
Chicago Tribune
By Jonathan Bullington, Tribune reporter
January 19, 2014

She knew the risks, but Lexie Kamerman's family and friends said the Chicago native would not be deterred from her goal: helping young women in Afghanistan improve their lives through education.

"That's the wonderful thing about her. She had a sense of fearlessness," said friend Sherrille Lamb. "She was so focused on helping those young ladies that no matter what the circumstances around her might bring, that's what she was there for."

Less than a year after she took a job at the American University of Afghanistan, Kamerman was among 21 people who died Friday when a Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a restaurant in the capital, Kabul.

"She was an amazing young woman — smart, strong, beautiful, funny, stubborn and kind," her family said in an emailed statement. "As you could probably guess, her death is a shock to us all and we can't imagine a moment going forward when she won't be desperately missed."
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Three US soldiers among at least 14 killed by Afghan suicide bomber

Three US soldiers among at least 14 killed by Afghan suicide bomber
By NBC's Courtney Kube and wire reports

A suicide bomber detonated a device in Afghanistan on Monday, killing three U.S. soldiers, one interpreter and four members of the Afghan National Police, a military official told NBC News.

The U.S. soldiers and Afghan police were on a dismounted partner patrol near the center of the Khost region in eastern Afghanistan. The attacker approached and detonated as they were preparing to get back in their vehicles.

Six civilians also died in the attack, Reuters reported.

Despite reports that the bomber was riding a motorcycle, the official said there was no evidence of that. The official added that the dead interpreter is thought to be Afghan.

A witness told Reuters a suicide bomber was wearing a police uniform.
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Sailor turned soldier killed by suicide bomber in Afghanistan

Suicide bomber kills Fredonia soldier
WIVB.com
Updated: Thursday, 27 Sep 2012
Jacquie Walker
Posted by: Eli George

FREDONIA, N.Y. (WIVB) - A Fredonia man who served his country first in the Navy for six years, and then returned to duty in the U.S. Army, has been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

Family members tell News 4 28-year-old Army Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz was devoted to his 4-year-old son and service to his country.

His grandma, Minnie Gollnitz, said, "Guarding the Army headquarters and a suicide bomber comes by and I guess he got blown up."

Gollnitz had previously served in Iraq and had only been in Afghanistan for the past two to three months.
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Soldier healing after suicide bomber killed friends

Wounded G.I., Bartram Trail grad making 'amazing' progress
Bartram Trail grad injured by suicide bomber overseas tells family 'I love you'
Posted: June 19, 2012
By SHELDON GARDNER

Bartram Trail grad injured by suicide bomber overseas tells family ‘I love you’

After spending two weeks in a coma, U.S. Army Lt. Ryan Timoney, 26, is awake. He is asking for food and drinks — power bars, apples, ice. He has said “I love you” to his family. He can write, and he is using a motorized wheelchair on his own.

“It’s amazing, it’s amazing what he’s doing,” his mother Diane Timoney said over the phone, her voice upbeat, her speech interspersed with laughter.

Her family has hope now, after two weeks of watching Ryan, a Bartram Trail High School graduate, in a hospital bed — silent, motionless, as he struggled to recover from injuries he suffered after a suicide bomber attacked him and 12 other soldiers in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. He is being treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Md.
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Silver Star Award for Spc. Joseph Gibson's fight with suicide bomber

Ranger earns Silver Star for hand-to-hand combat

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Oct 4, 2008 10:43:50 EDT

The Rangers were wading through chest-high grass and deep irrigation ditches.

Spc. Joseph Gibson, 23, felt something odd underfoot. It turned out to be an armed man wearing a suicide vest. What happened next earned Gibson a Silver Star medal.

“He was kneeled down in one of the irrigation ditches. I actually stepped on him and just because of how the terrain was I really didn’t even think anything of it. I took about two more steps before I thought, ‘I’d better see what that was,’ ” said Gibson, of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment.

Gibson received the Silver Star at a ceremony Sept. 26 at Fort Lewis, Wash., where his unit is headquartered.

It was April 26, and Gibson, who joined the Army in 2005 “to get as much action as I could,” had already been to Iraq three times on the night he and his squad were moving through the ditches.

The man in the ditch was the last thing he expected to see, Gibson said, and because he had been pushing through the grass to see the ground, he didn’t have his rifle aimed.

“He was fixin’ to shoot me and there’s no way I could have shot him first, so I just got in front of his weapon ... and he fired it off right next to my face,” Gibson told Army Times. “I tackled him to the ground and grabbed hold of his weapon ... and I started hollering for help. While I was doing that he ripped my helmet off.”

Before help could arrive, Gibson was in a full-scale hand-to-hand fight with the man, who was on his back and tenaciously fighting to get control of his AK47 assault rifle.

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