Official: 5 troops killed in Afghanistan bombing are all Americans

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Official: 5 troops killed in Afghanistan bombing are all Americans

From Barbara Starr, CNN
April 17, 2011 6:27 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Five troops killed in a suicide bombing this weekend at a military base in eastern Afghanistan were members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, a senior U.S. military official said Sunday.

Earlier, authorities had said only that five members of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, which includes troops from the United States and other nations, were killed in the Saturday incident.

The families of all five have been notified of the deaths, and a formal announcement from the Army is forthcoming, said the official, who declined to be identified pending the announcement.

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On Saturday, a suicide bomber wearing an Afghan military uniform struck, killing the five, at a military base, Forward Operating Base Gamberi, in eastern Afghanistan's Laghman Province. The attack came during a meeting between Afghan soldiers and their ISAF mentors.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/17/afghanistan.attack/index.html

[daleo]

1. I read this week that Taliban were coming over to the government side

Maybe this is part of a strategy. It would certainly make full and frank cooperation between western troops and government troops less likely.

[Plucketeer]

2. A quintet of brave Americans

sacraficed to justify the military-industrial's money sprees!

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r