Trolling the Web for Afghan Dead: “In an online report, a University of New Hampshire professor charges that the U.S. military has killed more than 4,000 civilians in Afghanistan and that the U.S. media have largely ignored the toll of the war on terrorism.” Wired On the other side of the coin, the news media are all over this fatality:

Franks Confirms U.S. Soldier Killed By Enemy. The Green Beret, on a mission near the Pakistani border in eastern Afghanistan to “facilitate cooperation” with tribal elements in the area, was killed and a CIA agent accompanying him was injured in what has been described as an ambush. He becomes the first US combat fatality to hostile fire. The Boston Channel