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One British Soldier, 17 Taleban Killed in Southern Afghanistan
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=135D9A5:3919ACA NATO statement
says the soldier was killed Sunday during an attack against insurgents
in the Musa Qala district





Troops from NATO military secure site of a suicide bombing at main
highway near Kandahar, August 6, 2006

The British Defense Ministry says a British soldier serving with the
NATO force in Afghanistan has been shot dead in southern Helmand
province.

A NATO statement says the soldier was killed Sunday during an attack
against insurgents in the Musa Qala district.

In other violence, in the same province, Afghan authorities say 17
Taleban insurgents have been killed Saturday.

Local officials say three insurgents were killed in a clash in the
mountainous Garmser district.  Hours later, during a search operation
in the same district, troops killed 14 more insurgents.

In neighboring Kandahar province, an American soldier was wounded when
a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car near a military
convoy on the main highway to Kabul.

And, armed men attacked a police post overnight in the Murghab
district of western Badghis province, killing at least two Afghan
border police.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.


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