Taliban Kill 10 Fr Troops, Attack Am base

julia · 08-19-2008, 01:20 PM

Taliban kill 10 French troops, raid American base

AP AMIR SHAH August 19

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SUROBI, Afghanistan — Insurgents ambushed a group of elite French soldiers as they climbed a mountain pass, killing 10 troops in a militant stronghold outside the capital. In a separate coordinated attack, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

French paratroopers and a Foreign Legion soldier were among the dead Monday _ the biggest single combat loss for international forces in Afghanistan in more than three years.
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The French have the most amount of troops in Afghanistan after the US. We owe it to our allies to have a better presence, there.

Heretic · 08-19-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by julia

Taliban kill 10 French troops, raid American base

AP AMIR SHAH August 19

The French have the most amount of troops in Afghanistan after the US. We owe it to our allies to have a better presence, there.

That and the French really have led the charge against al-Qaeda since 2003. They've caught, prosecuted and convicted more terrorists that we pretended to have done.

ianmine · 08-20-2008, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by julia

[b] We owe it to our allies to have a better presence, there.

thanks Jules!
on a per capita basis, there have been more Canadians killed than any other of the allies there... and it's the lengthiest war we've fought to date (WWII included)....

...we need help.

julia · 08-20-2008, 11:22 AM

I'm sorry to hear that, Ian, I did not know that fact.

Thanks for the info.

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