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No reports air support resulted in French casualties: Pentagon
Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has no information that close US air support resulted in casualties among French troops ambushed by insurgents in Afghanistan.

The newspaper Le Monde reported that French troops wounded in the fighting said NATO air strikes missed their targets and hit French troops, as did shots fired by Afghan troops backing them up.

"We have no reports of any casualties caused by close air support," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. Asked whether French soldiers had been killed or wounded by friendly fire, he said there were "no reports of that."



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French troops 'killed by Nato jets'



Reports that 10 French soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan after being mistakenly attacked by Nato aircraft are to be "looked into," officials for the military alliance have said.



France's Le Monde newspaper quoted French soldiers who had survived the ambush near Kabul on Monday saying they were hit in a "friendly fire" incident.



The soldiers told the newspaper they waited for four hours for back-up after being ambushed.



But when Nato planes finally arrived they hit French troops after missing their target, the newspaper quoted the soldiers as saying.


more:http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/08/200882...

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