'Taleban' kill Afghan troops - Eight Afghan Soldiers Are Killed by Mine

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http://www.myafghan.com/news2.asp?id=-650087161

'Taleban' kill Afghan troops

(BBC) - Eight Afghan Government soldiers have been killed in an attack in the south-eastern province of Khost.

Military officials said the soldiers were in a car travelling about 25 kilometres east of Khost town when they were attacked by suspected Taleban fighters.

A BBC reporter who saw the bodies of the dead soldiers said they appeared to have been killed in an explosion.

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http://www.myafghan.com/news2.asp?id=1302608176

Eight Afghan Soldiers Are Killed by Mine

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Eight Afghan soldiers were killed Friday when their vehicle was blown apart by a remote controlled mine, an Afghan security official said.

The soldiers were on patrol in the violent Khost province, where suspected Taliban fugitives have carried out scores of attacks against Afghan soldiers as well as U.S.-led coalition forces, Rehman Karim, security officer, said.

The soldiers who were killed were part of a special unit working with the U.S.-led coalition forces to monitor the regions that border Pakistan, Karim said.

The Afghan authorities have complained that members of the ousted Taliban are launching attacks from safe havens in the lawless tribal regions of western Pakistan. The repressive Taliban regime was ousted in 2001 by the U.S.-led coalition, which launched its war on terror in Afghanistan to flush out operatives of the al-Qaida terrorist network and their protectors, the Taliban.

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[realFedUp]

1. and OBTW we're still fighting in Afghanistan

what a world.

[indictrichardperle]

3. Afghanistan costs US One Billion a month

for what?

Does anyone believe there will be a remnant of the Mayor of Kabul's govt in place ten years from now? Absolute waste of time, money and lives.

[Frances]

2. Those of us who read DU

have known for a long time that the war in Afghanistan is not over.

I have been wondering when someone was going to tell our media.

[umcwb]

4. Locking - Dupe

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