Five foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan

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Source: ABC News

ABC News Australia
August 27th 2007
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/28/2016986.htm?section=justin
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Five foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Posted 1 hour 45 minutes ago

Five foreign troops were killed in fighting in Afghanistan, taking the death toll for international forces past 150 for the year as the Taliban insurgency intensifies, officials said.

This year's toll is fast approaching the highest since the Taliban was ousted in 2001 by a US-led invasion.

"Three coalition and two Afghan soldiers were killed this morning in an ambush in the eastern province of Kunar," which borders Pakistan, a US military official said on condition of anonymity.

A spokesman for the US-led coalition, Sergeant Dean Welch, told AFP there had been an incident in the east of the country that had caused "several casualties", but he refused to give a number.

Police in Kunar gave the same death toll and said it involved "intense fighting." District police chief Abdul Qayoum told AFP that two foreign and seven Afghan soldiers were also injured in the battle.

Also on Monday a foreign soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force was killed in a separate ambush in Paktika province, also in the east, ISAF spokeswoman Christine Nelson-Chung said.

A Dutch sergeant stationed in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan was meanwhile killed late on Sunday by a home-made bomb, and another Dutch soldier was wounded.

NATO said late on Sunday that another ISAF soldier had been killed - also on Sunday - in eastern Afghanistan, bringing the total for two days to six foreign soldiers.

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1. The Taliban must just be getting deperate

Oh and Karzi's gov't is talking to the Taliban abou thow they may be included in the government.

[ohio2007]

2. 6 western troops killed in Afghan fighting; France plans to bolster forces

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he was adding 150 military trainers to a 1,000-person contingent in Afghanistan after months of speculation about his country's commitment to the international force.

"I decided to reinforce the presence of our trainers in the Afghan army, because it is (the Afghan army) that must first of all wage and win the fight against the Taliban," Sarkozy said in opening an annual conference of French ambassadors, his first as president.

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