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July 13, 2009

Four Marines & Eight British Troops Killed in Afghanistan
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In Afghanistan, four Marines died Sunday in two separate roadside bomb
blasts. On Friday, eight British troops died. Overall, 192 foreign
troops have been killed so far this year in Afghanistan—a 40 percent
jump from the same period last year. More British troops have now died
in Afghanistan than in Iraq. Meanwhile, President Obama has ordered
national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush
administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan
warlord over the killings of at least 2,000 Taliban prisoners in 2001.
We’ll have more on this story later in the broadcast.



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