US troops pull out of Afghan base after attack (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 5:26am

Afghan soldiers stand over the dead bodies of Taliban militants after they were killed in a failed ambush on Afghan forces in Qara Bagh district of Ghazni province, south west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)AP - U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week, officials said Wednesday.




 

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