Four US soldiers wounded in Afghan blast

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KABUL - Four US soldiers were wounded Friday when a roadside bomb planted by insurgents hit their armoured vehicle in northeastern Afghanistan, the US military said.

The troops were attacked as they returned from a mission to defuse a similar bomb in near Asadabad, the main town in insurgency-hit Kunar province, the military said in a statement.

The wounded were evacuated to Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, where they were were listed as being in a stable condition, the statement said.

The statement added that US troops along with their Afghan counterparts began a hunt "to kill or capture those responsible".

Turkish Press

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1. Four more victims

of Shrub's incompetence. By illegally invading Iraq, and causing massive death and suffering there, he left the forces in Afghanistan stretched too thin. I wonder if our troops in Afghanistan feel abandoned by their Chimp-in-Chief? He diverted the resources they need to Iraq, because he was obsessed with invading that country.