- ISLAMABAD (AFP) -
Afghanistan's
Taliban regime today said that 95 American soldiers had been killed since
the launch of the US-led military campaign one month ago.
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- "The death toll of US soldiers in this war has now
approximately reached 95," the Taliban embassy in Pakistan said in
a written statement.
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- The United States has not confirmed the combat death
of a single American soldier in Afghanistan.
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- The Taliban statement regretted that the bodies of
American
troops could not be returned to their relatives, but blamed the United
States for denying the incidents in which the alleged deaths had
occurred.
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- It specifically cited an incident in which the Taliban
claimed to have shot down two US military helicopters on Friday, killing
a number of American servicemen.
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- The Pentagon said only one helicopter had crashed in
severe weather, and that all the crew members had been rescued before an
air strike was ordered to destroy the wreckage.
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- "The real tragedy with the US soldiers and their
families occurred when ... the US heavily bombed the wreckage of their
own helicopters," the Taliban said.
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- "The resulting effect was not that they destroyed
the helicopters but that they destroyed any hope of any survivors among
its wreckage," the statement said.
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- "The US did this so that the bodies of the US
soldiers
could not be shown as evidence of casualties of this war to the American
public."
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- The Pentagon has said it routinely destroys aircraft
downed in hostile territory to prevent the equipment on board from falling
into enemy hands.
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