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Three US soldiers, three Afghan police killed in bomb blasts
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 08 - 2009


Three NATO-led US soldiers were killed in roadside
bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, while a similar
attack in the country's north took the lives of three Afghan
policemen, officials said, according to dpa.
The three soldiers were killed when their convoy was hit by two
roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
The alliance statement did not reveal the nationalities of the
soldiers, but a US military spokesman in the region confirmed that
the dead soldiers were Americans and that the incidents took place in
Kandahar province.
Roadside bomb attacks, the use of which has recently become more
common among Taliban militants, resulted in the deaths of more than
half of the 74 soldiers, including 43 US military members, killed in
Afghanistan last month.
July marked the deadliest month for international forces since
their deployment to the country in late 2001. More than 90,000
international troops - more than half of them from the US - are
currently stationed in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, three Afghan policemen, including the head of security
for the Dahna Ghori district of northern Baghlan province, were
killed when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb on
Saturday, Jaweed Basharat, a spokesman for the provincial police
chief said.
Afghanistan's northern provinces, which had been one of the
country's most stable areas, have seen an upsurge in Taliban-led
attacks in recent months.
Afghan and international troops, mainly US, British and Canadian
soldiers, are taking part in several operations in the country to
push the militants out of areas they control and provide a safer
environment for the country's scheduled August 20 presidential
elections.
Taliban militants, who were driven from power some eight years
ago, have vowed to disrupt the elections, which would be the second
direct vote for an Afghan president in the history of the country.


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