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Article: 4 NATO troops die in Afghanistan
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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KABUL -- Bombs killed four NATO troops Monday -- two Americans
and two Britons -- ending the deadliest month of the war for U.S.
forces as the top NATO commander called for a new strategy to
confront the Taliban.
The U.S. military said the two Americans were killed in separate
explosions in southern Afghanistan but gave no further details.
Their deaths brought to 47 the number of U.S. troops who have died
in the Afghan war in August -- three more than in July which had
been the deadliest month.
In London, the British Ministry of Defense said the two British
soldiers were killed by a bomb on a foot patrol north of Lashkar
Gah, a southern Afghan city where Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid a ...