- In Afghanistan's South Western province of Arzagan, in
the district of Gaizab Mujahideen attacked a recently established American
military base from three sides and killed 7 American soldiers and injured
several others. News has also been received of the killing of Afghan soldiers
while two vehicles were destroyed.
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- The Mujahideen used rocket launchers and other new generation
weapons in the attack. Meanwhile, a Taliban representative has claimed
to have captured the district headquarters of Gaizab Province. Arzagan's
governor Jan Mohammad while confirming the attack said that the attackers
were turned back. Arzagan's Governor also said that these Taliban soldiers
also attacked the American military convoys coming from Tareen Kot and
Dehrawad and that three American soldiers were injured.
- Meanwhile, American military spokesman Col. Roger King
while briefing the journalists in Bagram said that they martyred one Mujahid
and arrested seven during attacks on three different suspected Taliban
hide outs in the south of the country. Refraining from telling the name
of the area, he said that fighting is still underway. According to sources,
this area is Gaizab.
- In Arzagan, Afghan public officials complained that Taliban
have better weapons which are more powerful than those used by public officials.
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- Two US Soldiers Killed,
Several Wounded In Afghan Clash
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- (AFP) -- Two US soldiers were killed and several other
US and Afghan soldiers were wounded in a clash with unknown attackers in
southeast Afghanistan, the US military said.
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- The attack took place on Friday morning near a rocket
launch site previously used by Afghan forces east of Fire Base Shkin near
the Pakistan border in Paktika Province, a US military statement said.
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- A coalition platoon was attacked by "approximately
20 enemy personnel" while investigating a report of suspicious activity
near the launch site.
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- The attackers fled across the border into Pakistan when
reinforcements arrived.
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- In Washington, General Richard Myers, head of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said two US soldiers were killed in the gunbattle
and a number of US and Afghan soldiers were killed.
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- US forces estimated that at least three of the attackers
were killed in the exchange of fire.
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- Myers told a press briefing: "We engaged the enemy
from the ground and from the air, and we continue to look for them."
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- Two F-16 Fighting Falcons, two US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt
tankbusters and two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters responded to provide
air support, according to the US military.
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- The names of the US casualties were not immediately given.
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- Four US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the
past four weeks.
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- Two US troops were killed in an ambush in southern Helmand
province on March 29.
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- A US-led coalition of more than 10,000 soldiers is currently
hunting down Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants in the south and east of Afghanistan.
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