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BBC News January 11, 2010 Six international soldiers die in Afghanistan Six international soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, Nato officials say, making Monday the deadliest day for foreign troops there in two months. Those killed are reported to include three Americans and one French soldier. Earlier, the French president's office said another French soldier had been badly injured north-east of Kabul. .... The Americans died when they were caught in a firefight with militants during an "operational patrol" in southern Afghanistan, US military spokesman Col Wayne Shanks says. The French spokesman said its soldiers were patrolling with Afghan troops in the Alasay valley, some 80km (50 miles) from the capital. France is among the top five contributors to Isaf operations and has almost 3,000 troops deployed, mainly in eastern Afghanistan. Taliban militants often target Afghan and foreign troops in the south, where the insurgency is at its strongest. On Sunday, an American service member and two Afghan road construction workers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan. Earlier this month, a suicide bomber killed seven CIA agents at America's Forward Operating Base Chapman near the eastern Afghan city of Khost. President Barack Obama announced last month that an additional 30,000 US troops would be deployed quickly in Afghanistan to fight the insurgency. The reinforcements will take the total number of US troops in Afghanistan to more than 100,000. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [email protected] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
