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Eight U.S. Troops Die in Attack on Afghan Outpost
• Washington PostThe fighting began early Saturday morning and raged throughout the day in a remote region of eastern Afghanistan in Nurestan province, which borders Pakistan. Staging their attack from steep mountainsides that overlook the outposts in the valley below, on a morning when weather made visibility poor, the Taliban fighters attacked the small American and Afghan bases using rifles, machine guns, grenades and rockets, according to U.S. military officials.
2 Comments in Response to Eight U.S. Troops Die in Attack on Afghan Outpost
War is a bitch, sometimes it is the invaders (instead of innocent civilians) that die, imagine that?
More from Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100303048.html?hpid=artslot
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?hp