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KABUL - Militant fighters streaming from a village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight American soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest gunbattles of the troubled eight-year war.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack for coalition forces since a similar raid in July 2008 killed nine American soldiers in the same mountainous region known as a haven for al-Qaida militants. The U.S. has already said it plans to leave the remote area to focus on Afghan population centers.
Fighting began around dawn Saturday and lasted several hours, said Bandar, governor of Nuristan province. Badar said the two outposts were on a hill ? one near the top and one at the foot of the slope ? flanked by the village on one side and the mosque on the other.
Nearly 300 militant fighters flooded the lower, Afghan outpost then swept around it to reach the American station on higher ground from both directions, said Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh, the provincial police chief. The U.S. military statement said the Americans and Afghans repelled the attack by tribal fighters and "inflicted heavy enemy casualties."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33160876/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia
Spytheweb: This is Obama's fault for not pulling out of the war. But you can thank Bush for not finishing this war years ago by deploying forces to Iraq, forces that would have gotten the job done.
Now it's going into 9 years. The Russians stayed 10, will we break their record?
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack for coalition forces since a similar raid in July 2008 killed nine American soldiers in the same mountainous region known as a haven for al-Qaida militants. The U.S. has already said it plans to leave the remote area to focus on Afghan population centers.
Fighting began around dawn Saturday and lasted several hours, said Bandar, governor of Nuristan province. Badar said the two outposts were on a hill ? one near the top and one at the foot of the slope ? flanked by the village on one side and the mosque on the other.
Nearly 300 militant fighters flooded the lower, Afghan outpost then swept around it to reach the American station on higher ground from both directions, said Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh, the provincial police chief. The U.S. military statement said the Americans and Afghans repelled the attack by tribal fighters and "inflicted heavy enemy casualties."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33160876/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia
Spytheweb: This is Obama's fault for not pulling out of the war. But you can thank Bush for not finishing this war years ago by deploying forces to Iraq, forces that would have gotten the job done.
Now it's going into 9 years. The Russians stayed 10, will we break their record?
