[news] "Attacks Becoming More Intense, Better Co-ordinated": Nine U.S. Soldiers Killed by Afghan Militants

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By JASON STRAZIUSO AND GLEN JOHNSON - Monday, July 14, 2008

A multipronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 yesterday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said...The attack on the American troops began around 4:30 a.m. local time and lasted throughout the day. Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes and a mosque in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar...  


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