Tuesday, August 19, 2008

more chaos in Afghanistan

Taliban kill 10 French paratroopers, raid US base

SUROBI, Afghanistan – Insurgents ambushed a group of French paratroopers as they climbed a mountain pass, killing 10 soldiers in a militant stronghold outside the capital. In a separate coordinated attack, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.


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