Lower Babur

Lower Babur is a village in the Arghandab District of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan that was destroyed by American military forces in October and November 2010.[1]

In the Autumn of 2010, the United States Army launched Operation Dragon Strike in Kandahar as a part of U.S. President Barack Obama's broader troop surge strategy in Afghanistan.[2] After experiencing high casualties in Arghandab, Lt. Col. David S. Flynn of the American 1-320th field artillery, a part of the 101st Airborne Division, ordered villagers in some villages to diffuse IEDs or leave their villages, which would be destroyed by aerial bombardment. Flynn maintained that villagers knew the location of IEDs; some villagers later stated that they would coordinate with insurgents to travel safely along certain paths at certain hours of the day.[3]

Flynn later explained that the villages were empty of people and full of IEDs,[4] a claim repeated by The New York Times.[5] Villagers near Lower Babur disputed this account during interviews with IPS, explaining that they had evacuated their homes prior to the American offensive, but returned regularly to tend to their properties.[3][6]

Few media sources describe the destruction of Lower Babur specifically.[1] Arghandab District governor Shah Muhammed Ahmadi reported that 6 villages had been destroyed, with his assent and the agreement of their inhabitants.[5] In April 2011, Bob Strong of Reuters reported that "a walk through what was once the village of lower Babur revealed a narrow strip of rubble surrounded by orchards and forest on both sides, testimony to the force of U.S. bombing."[7] Strong noted that the village mosque had been rebuilt.[7] In August 2011, Sean Martin reported that 20 small houses had been "rebuilt" by the "Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team." Afghans had not yet moved back into their village.[8]

References

Ackerman, Spencer: ‘Why I Flattened Three Afghan Villages’. Wired Magazine, 1 February 2011.
Hastings, Deborah, "Operation Dragon Strike: Battle for Kandahar Begins Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, AOL News, 27 September 2010.
Noori, Shah and Gareth Porter, "Kabul: Afghan villagers dispute U.S. Rationale for bombing Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine." The Madison Times, 2 March 2011.
Flynn, David, "I Acted After a Great Deal of Deliberative Planning." Thomas Rick's Foreign Policy Blog, 24 January 2011.
Norland, Rod and Taimoor Shah: NATO is Razing Booby-Trapped Afghan Homes. The New York Times, 16 November 2010.
Porter, Gareth: Kandahar gains come with "brutal" tactics. Asia Times, 21 December 2010.
Strong, Bob, U.S. troops await Taliban in south Afghan valley, Reuters, 12 April 2011.
Martin, Sean, Kandahar PRT engineers perform site assessment at lower Babur Village rebuild, Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System, 17 August 2011.

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2001	Bombing of Kandahar Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif Siege of Kunduz Herat uprising Fall of Kabul Battle of Tarinkot Fall of Kandahar Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Dasht-i-Leili massacre Battle of Shawali Kowt Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay Battle of Tora Bora
2002 –2006	2002 Guantanamo Bay Kabul bombing 2003 Pakistan Embassy in Kabul attack 2004 2005 Bagram torture and prisoner abuse Salt Pit 2006
2007	Shinwar shooting Hyderabad airstrike Nangar Khel incident Helmand airstrikes Baghlan bombing Bagram bombing S Korean hostage crisis
2008	Haska Meyna airstrike Azizabad airstrike Wech Bagtu airstrike Kabul Indian embassy bombing Kabul S Hotel attack Kidnapping of David Rohde Sarposa attack Kandahar bombing Spin Boldak bombing
2009	Granai airstrike Kunduz airstrike Narang night raid February Kabul raids Kabul Indian embassy bombing Kandahar bombing NATO HQ bombing Camp Chapman attack Battle of Sabzak Kunduz airstrike
2010	January Kabul attack Khataba raid February Kabul attack Uruzgan helicopter attack Sangin airstrike Maywand murders Tarok Kolache Nadahan bombing May Kabul bombing Badakhshan massacre Operation Halmazag
2011	Mano Gai airstrike Sarposa prison escape Bin Laden raid Logar bombing I-C Hotel Kabul attack Nimruz bombing Zabul bombing Chinook shootdown Helmand killing Pakistani border attack Ashura bombings
2012	Urination video Kapisa airstrike Quran burning protests April attacks Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre Kandahar massacre September Camp Bastion raid Body pictures
2013	Farah attack June Kabul bombings Presidential palace attack Herat U.S. consulate attack Jalalabad Indian consulate bombing
2014	Kabul S Hotel attack Herat Indian consulate attack Bagram bombing Paktika bombing Yahyakhel bombing December Kabul bombings Atiqullah Raufi assassination
2015	Park Palace attack Kabul Parliament attack Khost bombing April Jalalabad bombing 7 August Kabul attacks 10 August Kabul bombing 22 August Kabul bombing Ghazni prison escape Battle of Kunduz Hospital airstrike Kandahar Airport attack Kabul Spanish Embassy attack Bagram bombing
2016	February Kabul bombing Nangarhar Offensive Jalalabad bombing Operation Omari April Kabul attack Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis Kabul Canadian Embassy convoy bombing 30 June bombings July Kabul bombing 1 August Kabul attack Jani Khel offensive AUoA attack September Kabul attacks Battle of Tarinkot Battle of Kunduz Battle of Boz Qandahari Mazar-i-Sharif German consulate attack Bagram bombing November Kabul bombing
2017	January bombings Supreme Court bombing Sangin airstrike March Kabul attack Nangarhar airstrike Camp Shaheen attack May Kabul attack 3 June Kabul bombing June Herat bombing Battle of Bora Bora June Kabul mosque attack June Lashkargar bombing 24 July Kabul bombing Attack on Iraqi embassy in Kabul August Herat attack 28 December Kabul bombing
2018	4 January Kabul bombing I-C Hotel Kabul attack STC Jalalabad attack Kabul ambulance bombing March Kabul bombing Kunduz madrassa attack 22 April Kabul bombing 30 April Kabul bombings Battle of Farah July Jalalabad bombing Battle of Darzab Ghazni offensive September Jalalabad bombing November Kabul bombing
2019	Maidan Shar attack Camp Shorabak attack 2019 Kabul mosque bombing 1 July Kabul attack Ghazni bombing Kabul University bombing 25 July Kabul bombings 28 July Kabul bombing July Farah bombing 7 August Kabul bombing 17 August Kabul bombing 2 & 5 September Kabul bombings 17 September bombings Qalat bombing Jalalabad bombing Haska Meyna mosque bombing November Kabul bombing Bagram attack
2020	February Kabul bombing 6 March Kabul shooting Kabul gurdwara attack May attacks June attacks July attacks August attacks Jalalabad prison September attacks October attacks Kabul suicide bombing November attacks Kabul University attack December attacks

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Kandahar Province
Capital: Kandahar
Districts	Arghandab Arghistan Daman Ghorak Kandahar Khakrez Maruf Maywand Mayanishin Nesh Panjwayi Reg Shah Wali Kot Shorabak Spin Boldak Zhari
Populated places	Alkozai Arghandab Arghistan Atel Mohammed Baladay Balandi Bazar-i-Panjwayi Daman Ghorak Golzar Ilbak Kar-Mulla Karz Khakrez Khosrow Sofla Lower Babur Maiwand Maruf Mulla Wali Waleh Najeeban Nesh Reg Alaqadari Regay Singesar Spin Boldak Tarok Kolache Tizak, Afghanistan Walakan Wali, Afghanistan Yakh Karez
Landforms	Arghandab River Arghistan River Dori River
Other	Governors Dahla Dam Kandahar International Cricket Stadium Kandahar Stadium Kirka Sharif

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