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news.yahoo.com - 8/19/2008
Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at US base - Yahoo! News
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SUROBI, Afghanistan - Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan , killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border. The audacious strikes suggested a bolder insurgency is now willing to launch frontal assaults on U.S. and NATO ...

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France pays a price: No surrender monkey jokes allowed
TigerHawk — ... France lost ten soldiers today in Afghanistan, but Sarko is doubling down : The French soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission when they were ambushed Monday afternoon by a force of about 100 militants in the mountains of Surobi, an insurgent redoubt 30 miles east of the Afghan capital of Kabul. France's top military official, Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, said most of the French casualties came in the minutes after the soldiers ascended a mountain pass. Battles ensued and 21 French soldiers were wounded. French Defense Minister Herve Morin said about 30 militants were killed ...

Ten weeks in Afghanistan
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings VetVoice has a stunning report on the scale of the lethal violence in Afghanistan: Afghanistan is now deadlier than Iraq ever was. When the Iraq War reached its deadliest peak during a 10-week period in April, May, and June of 2007, 308 coalition troops died. That was 1 out of every 575 troops on the ground at the time. It was a terrible period in which even the most die-hard Bush supporters began to question the sense in continuing the occupation. By contrast, 105 ...

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