U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Call in Planes

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Call in Planes

Saturday June 5, 2004 10:31 AM


KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. forces called in warplanes during two separate battles with Taliban-led insurgents, the military said Saturday.

The Marines called in airstrikes during a clash late Friday near Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, 250 miles southwest of Kabul, military spokesman Lt. Col. Tucker Mansager said.

The American troops fought a gunbattle with a ``fairly substantial number of anti-coalition militants,'' Mansager said. He had no word on any casualties or details of the fighting.

Meanwhile, militants fired two rockets and rained gunfire on U.S.-led forces near Nangarlam in eastern Kunar province on Thursday.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4170649,00.html