US soldier killed, 2 injured in clash w/ suspected Taliban in Afghanistan

[DuctapeFatwa]

A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded in a clash with suspected Taliban rebels in southeastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

The clash took place Monday near a coalition base at Shkin, in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan, spokesman Col. Rodney Davis said in a statement from Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. Two enemy fighters were also killed, he said. "One coalition service member died of wounds received in combat and two others were wounded as a result of fighting on Monday near Shkin," Davis said in a statement. "Coalition forces killed two enemy fighters with direct small arms fire."

No other details of the fighting were immediately available. Davis said the soldiers were not engaged in Mountain Viper, an ongoing operation in the south and east of the country to root out Taliban fighters.

The dead soldier's name was not released pending notification of next of kin.

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=1337D04D-936F-4E3A-9BCD-4B6814906595

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. But but, there is peace in

Afghanistan and all are singing Kumbaya... just ask Rummy.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. The numbers killed and wounded need to be totalled.

In Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, wherever Bush's world tour touches down.

[varun]

3. U.S. Soldier Killed, Two Wounded in Afghanistan

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030930/ts_nm/afghan_usa_dc

...Two U.S. soldiers were wounded and two opposing fighters were killed in the fighting on Monday near Shkin in Paktika province close to the Pakistan border, U.S. military spokesman Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters at Bagram air base north of Kabul...

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Ah....the good old US "Ally" Pakistan...sending Taliban across the border to Afghanistan again

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