Afghanistan timeline June 2004 - Definition and Overview

Afghanistan timeline

June 30, 2004

• Bombs hidden in fruit carts exploded at two sepaarate security checkpoints in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, killing four and injuring 23.
• U.S. and Afghan National Army troops traded gunfire with rebels near Daychopan, Afghanistan, killing five and capturing seven. One Afghan soldier was wounded.

June 29, 2004

• Afghan National Army troops in Char Cheno district, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, killed three rebel fighters.
• In Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, rebels stopped four trucks bound for a U.S. base, set them on fire, and abducted twelve men operating the vehicles.

June 26, 2004

• In Afghanistan, a bomb planted in a minibus carrying workers to voter registration sites from Jalalabad to the Shinwar district exploded, killing two Afghani U.N. election workers, and injuring three. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi claimed responsibility. The driver left the vehicle just before the explosion. He was caught by police shortly thereafter.

June 25, 2004

• In Uruzgan province, Afghanistan rebels kidnapped sixteen passengers of a bus and then killed them.

June 24, 2004

• In Kunar province, Afghanistan, two U.S. Marines were killed and another was wounded.

June 23, 2004

• Near Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, five members of the Afghan National Army were killed and two others were seriously wounded when their vehicle hit a landmine.

June 22, 2004

• Seven rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a U.S. military base in Khost, Afghanistan, slightly wounding two soldiers and three Afghan interpreters.

June 21, 2004

• In the Surkh Sang area of Arghandab district of Zabul province, Afghanistan, rebels kidnapped and beheaded an Afghan interpreter, prompting U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan National Army soldiers to clash with the rebels, killing four of them. Naimatullah Khan, corps commander of southeastern Zabul province, initially stated that the Afghan soldiers avenged the interpreter's murder by beheaded the four rebels, but later retracted the statement. Three rebels were arrested.

June 20, 2004

• Three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at an electoral office near Kabul, Afghanistan.

June 18, 2004

• In central Afghanistan, an Afghan interpreter was killed by militant gunfire, while two U.S. soldiers and two New Zealand soldiers were wounded.
• Rebels fired at least two rockets at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• Scores of rebels attacked a government office in Mizan, Zabul province, Afghanistan, killing two Afghan National Army soldiers and wounding three during the two-hour exchange. Five attackers also died.

June 17, 2004

• Four suspects linked to the previous day's NATO convoy bombing were detained in Kunduz province by Afghan officials.
• In an afternoon-long siege, hundreds of troops of Abdul Salaam Khan attacked Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province, Afghanistan.
• Two New Zealand Special Air Service soldiers were wounded in a pre-dawn gunbattle in central Afghanistan.
• The two U.S. soldiers were wounded when their vehicle struck a landmine north of Qalat, Zabul province, Afghanistan.

June 16, 2004

• In Kunduz province, Afghanistan, a NATO convey was bombed, killing a driver and three bystanders.
• In the HSBC-sponsored ACC Trophy at the Kilat Club at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Afghanistan recorded its first win in an international cricket competition by defeating Bahrain by eight wickets.

June 15, 2004

• Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai addressed the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber. Karzai also met with U.S. President George W. Bush.
• In Kabul, Afghanistan, a group of 100 protesters led by Mahfooz Nedaye and Sayed Abdul Hadi called for the resignation of Hamid Karzai on the grounds that his term of office had expired under the terms of the Bonn Agreement.
• In Kandahar, Afghanistan, Hamid Agha, the local chief of refugee affairs was assassinated by gunmen on motorcycles. Three of his bodyguards were also wounded.

June 14, 2004

• Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai held a press conferences with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld beside a 9-11 memorial plaque on a section of the Pentagon's western wall.

June 13, 2004

• Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and on CNN's Late Edition.

June 12, 2004

• In Shorabak, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, sixty rebels clashed with fifty Afghan National Army troops for over three hours. The rebels seized the outpost building and set it on fire.

June 11, 2004

• In southeast Afghanistan, eleven rockets were fired at a U.N. convoy carrying government officials.

June 10, 2004

• In Kunduz province, Afghanistan, police chief Mutaleb Beg announced that two suspects were detained in connection with the previous day's massacre of Chinese aid workers.
• In the Bak district of Khost province, Afghanistan, a U.S. encountered three roadside bombs; one discharged. There were no casualties.

June 9, 2004

• Eleven Chinese aid workers from Jiangxi province were killed in their compound by a score of armed men in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and another six were wounded. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi stated the Taliban were not involved.
• U.S.-led coalition troops swept portions of Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, capturing a score of insurgents and killing eight.

June 8, 2004

• U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces completed a week-long operation in the Daychopan district of Zabul province, Afghanistan. Through the course of the operation, 73 rebel fighters were killed and 13 captured. Six Afghan government forces and four coalition soldiers were wounded, and none killed.
• Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai began a week-long visit to the United States. His first appearance was at Fort Drum, New York.

June 7, 2004

• A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded after their vehicle hit a landmine in southeastern Afghanistan. They were taken to Kandahar airfield hospital where the one soldier died.

June 6, 2004

• U.S. warplanes pounded dozens of insurgents hiding in caves near Tirin Kot, Afghanistan.
• In Qalay-e Naw, Badghis province, Afghanistan, a grenade was tossed over the wall of the compound housing the Italian relief group Alisei. A vehicle and a water tank were damaged, but no one was injured.

June 5, 2004

• In Paktia province, Afghanistan, a convoy of Afghan and foreign staff preparing for the elections was ambushed. There were no injuries.

June 4, 2004

• North of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, militants exchanged fire with U.S.-led forces. There were no reports of injuries, but five militants were detained.

June 3, 2004

• Doctors Without Borders suspended its work in Afghanistan.
• UNHCR suspended all travel in Badghis province, Afghanistan.

June 2, 2004

• Afghans Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah, Belgian Helene de Beir, Norwegian Egil Tynaes, and Dutchman Willem Kwint, all workers for Doctors Without Borders killed in an ambush near Khair Khana in Badghis province. They were the first ever fatalities for the group. Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, a spokesman for the Taliban, took responsibility for the attack.
• Sami Yousafzai, an Afghan journalist employed by Newsweek was freed from Pakistan after being detained since April 21.
• U.S. and Afghan troops backed by U.S. warplanes fought rebels in the mountains in the Miana Shien district of Kandahar province, killing 13 rebels and arresting eight. Two U.S. troops and one Afghan National Army soldier were wounded.
• The United States Congress unanimously approved a $25 billion dollar emergency request from George W. Bush to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

June 1, 2004

• Haji Ajab Shah, the chief of police Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was killed and three of his staff injured after a bomb exploded underneath his chair.