Posted on 06/20/2009 4:22:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
KABUL (AFP) – Four foreign soldiers were killed and dozens of Afghans, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in two days of violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday.
One soldier serving with the US-led coalition was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.
"A coalition service member was killed during an attack on a convoy in eastern Afghanistan... today," the coalition said in a statement, without giving further details including the exact location of the incident.
The British defence ministry said one of its soldiers with the separate NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an explosion Friday while on patrol near the town of Lashkar Gah in the southern province of Helmand.
With the latest deaths a total of four foreign troops have been killed since Friday, and 146 have died since the start of this year, the bloodiest since 2001.
Afghan authorities, meanwhile, reported that six civilians and dozens of insurgents were killed in other violence across the country, highlighting the threat the country faces as it prepares for presidential polls in August.
In an attack late Friday, a roadside bomb tore through a car in the western province of Herat, killing six members of a family, the provincial government said.
"We suspect the bomb was planted by the Taliban to target security forces. It struck a civilian car and killed three women and three men," Naqibullah Arween, a spokesman for the local administration, told AFP.
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An undated handout shows a NATO-led coalition soldier in southern Helmand province in Afghanistan. Four foreign soldiers were killed and dozens of Afghans, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in two days of violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday. (AFP/HO/File)
“Foreign soldier” quagmire.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) Joint Operation Center is seen in this undated photo in Tampa, Florida, seen here on June 17, 2009. In a windowless room at the sprawling MacDill Air Force Base, home to the US Central Command (CENTCOM), several dozen officers monitor developments across the Middle East, the Gulf and Central Asia 24 hours a day. (AFP/File/Michel Moutot)
U.S. soldiers carry flags of the U.S. and Afghanistan during a
Memorial Day ceremony at the Bagram airbase north of Kabul
May 28, 2006. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
U.S. ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry (L) and Afghan Minister of Urban Development Mohammad Yosouf Pashtun ride in a paddle boat on the Band-e-Amir lake, in Bamiyan province about 310 km (193 miles) northwest of Kabul June 18, 2009. Afghanistan declared Band-e-Amir in April 2009 as its first conservation area. For decades, the area deteriorated along with so much else in a country consumed by war, but today the area is far from any fighting and Afghan tourists have begun to return. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN ENVIRONMENT)
Four foreign soldiers were killed what the hell does that mean??? were they wearing UNIFORMS or something???
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