U.S. soldier among dead in Afghan attacks

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5725510&cKey=1114590029000

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters ambushed a police chief's convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing four policeman, and a U.S. soldier was killed in a separate ambush, police and the U.S. military said on Wednesday.

The attacks were the latest in a wave of rebel violence since the end of a winter lull.

The police chief of Deshu district in Helmand province, Shadi Khan, said he survived Tuesday's attack near the Pakistani border but four of his men were killed. Two Taliban fighters were also killed in the clash, he said.

"I lost four of my bodyguards and two others went missing. We killed two Taliban," Khan said.

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1. 'Afghanistan'... 'Taliban'...

triggers a faint memory. Can't quite place it.

Unfortunately, 'convoy' and 'killed' are too familiar.

Rest in peace, soldier.

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2. Anyone heard anymore about the 6 US soldiers missing in Afghanistan?

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050411-2467.html

DoD Identifies Army Casualties and Soldiers as Whereabouts Unknown

The Department of Defense announced today the death of eight Soldiers and the identity of six Soldiers listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. The soldiers died or became unaccounted for on April 6 in Ghazni, Afghanistan, when the CH-47 helicopter they were on crashed.

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3. I thought "democracy was on the march" in Afghanistan

Somebody must have forgotten to tell it to stop in Kabul, it just kept on marchin'. It is somewhere Pakistan now.

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4. Its marching alright n/t