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U.S. Loses 9 to Taliban Strike

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Kunar province lies on Afghanistan’s northeastern border with Pakistan.

Nine American soldiers are dead after a Taliban raid on a small combat outpost in the Afghan province of Kunar, near Pakistan. Coalition forces rarely experience such losses. The attack took place close to where the U.S. allegedly killed 47 civilians, a charge the military denies.

BBC:

Nine US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, in one of the biggest losses of life in a single incident since operations there began in 2001.

The troops died when insurgents attacked a military outpost in the north-eastern province of Kunar, close to the border with Pakistan.

The fighting came as international and Afghan forces battled militants on several fronts.

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By PatrickHenry, July 14, 2008 at 4:32 pm #

Bomb their weddings will ya.

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By Fadel Abdallah, July 14, 2008 at 1:07 am #

Another nine American lives sacrificed at the altar of our Liar-In-Chief!

And another sad day to be added to the sad long saga when America lost its moral compass and its direction as the War-Monger-In-Chief was crowned as the first “evil king” of the twenty-first century, as a result of a stolen election!

Will history pass its judgment only on the one Liar-In-Chief / the one War-Monger-In-Chief, or on the whole nation that allowed this travesty to go on for seven and half years now, and still counting?!

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By yours trulyj, July 13, 2008 at 7:58 pm #
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Nine More Americans Martyed In Afghanistan

“Who’s to blame?”

“Us.”

“Why us?”

“The war’s being carried out in our names.”

“How can we stop the slaughter?”

“We elect a president who’ll end the Afghanistan-Iraq War, negotiate with Iran plus turning things around here at home.”

“And then what sort of world?”

“It’ll be up to us.”

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