Monday, March 16, 2009

Nine NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Al-Manar

".....The Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast that killed four International Security Assistance Force troopers in the eastern province of Nangarhar Sunday, on the border with Pakistan. "It was an IED (improvised-explosive device). Four soldiers were killed," an ISAF spokesman at the force's Kabul headquarters said......

Two British soldiers from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers were killed in an explosion while on vehicle patrol Sunday in the Garmsir district in southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defense in London said. Three other ISAF soldiers died in Afghanistan on Saturday. One was French, another British and the nationality of the third has not been released."

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