2007 in Afghanistan - October

October

• October 2: War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blows himself up near a bus carrying policemen killing at least 11 in Kabul.

• October 6: War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomb attack on a United States convoy in Kabul kills a U.S. soldier and five civilians.

• October 7: War in Afghanistan: Sixteen militants fighting under wanted Uzbek warlord Tahir Yuldash are killed in eastern Afghanistan.

• October 8: Australia suffers its first combat casualty in Afghanistan following the explosion of a bomb in the southern province of Orūzgān.

• October 9: The United States Supreme Court dismisses the case of the German citizen Khalid El-Masri who accuses the CIA of abducting him to a secret prison in Afghanistan where he claims he was tortured. The US government had argued that a public trial would reveal state secrets.

• October 10: Taliban frees one German and four Afghan hostages kidnapped in mid-July.

• October 12: The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper appoints a five-member advisory committee on Afghanistan to be chaired by John Manley of the opposition Liberal Party of Canada.

• October 22: The President of the United States George W. Bush asks the United States Congress for US$189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• October 22: Georgia and Slovakia offer to send troops to support the Australian/Dutch taskforce in the south of the Afghanistan as the Dutch government is under pressure to reduce troops.

• October 27:
  • United States led coalition forces kill 80 Taliban fighters outside Musa Qala in Helmand province.
  • A suicide bomber explodes a bomb outside a United States base in eastern Afghanistan killing four Afghan soldiers and a civilian.
  • Denmark deployed its Leopard 2A5 DKs in support of operations in southern Afghanistan. The Danish tank unit, drawn from the first battalion of the Jydske Dragonregiment (Jutland Dragoons Regiment), was equipped with three tanks and one M113 armoured personnel carrier, with an armoured recovery vehicle and another tank kept in reserve.