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08-30-2010, 04:43 PM
Seven U.S. Soldiers Die in Afghan Attacks
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A medevac from the 101st Airborne division made a landing after an attack near Kandahar on Monday.
By ROD NORDLAND (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/rod_nordland/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: August 30, 2010
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Oleg Popov/Reuters
An American soldier ran to the scene of a roadside explosion in Kandahar province on Monday.
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The New York Times
The two bombings were unrelated, officials said, with one killing five service members and the other killing two. Fourteen American service members have been killed in Afghanistan, mostly in the south, since Saturday.
Witnesses near Kandahar City reported seeing a large blast strike an American military convoy on Monday afternoon on Highway 1, just west of the southern city, which has been the focus of stepped-up American military operations in recent months. An American armored vehicle was completely destroyed.
It was not known precisely where the second bombing took place, and officials declined to specify whether the victims were American Marines (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/us_marine_corps/index.html?inline=nyt-org) or Army (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/us_army/index.html?inline=nyt-org) soldiers. Both are operating in the area.
Earlier in the day, in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad, a district governor was killed by a car bomb. The bomb had been planted in the vehicle of Said Ahmad Pahlawan, governor of Lalpor District in Nangarhar Province, and exploded just outside the Jalalabad office of the governor of the province, according to Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman. The bomb also wounded four of the official’s security guards, he said.
An Afghan employee of The New York Times contributed reporting from Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
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A medevac from the 101st Airborne division made a landing after an attack near Kandahar on Monday.
By ROD NORDLAND (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/rod_nordland/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: August 30, 2010
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Oleg Popov/Reuters
An American soldier ran to the scene of a roadside explosion in Kandahar province on Monday.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/30/world/31afghan-map/31afghan-map-articleInline.jpg
The New York Times
The two bombings were unrelated, officials said, with one killing five service members and the other killing two. Fourteen American service members have been killed in Afghanistan, mostly in the south, since Saturday.
Witnesses near Kandahar City reported seeing a large blast strike an American military convoy on Monday afternoon on Highway 1, just west of the southern city, which has been the focus of stepped-up American military operations in recent months. An American armored vehicle was completely destroyed.
It was not known precisely where the second bombing took place, and officials declined to specify whether the victims were American Marines (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/us_marine_corps/index.html?inline=nyt-org) or Army (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/us_army/index.html?inline=nyt-org) soldiers. Both are operating in the area.
Earlier in the day, in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad, a district governor was killed by a car bomb. The bomb had been planted in the vehicle of Said Ahmad Pahlawan, governor of Lalpor District in Nangarhar Province, and exploded just outside the Jalalabad office of the governor of the province, according to Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman. The bomb also wounded four of the official’s security guards, he said.
An Afghan employee of The New York Times contributed reporting from Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan