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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 12:54:43 EDT
TWO U.S. SOLDIERS ARE KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN'S PAKTIKA PROVINCE
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and an Afghan and two U.S. soldiers were wounded on 25 April in a daytime clash with suspected Taliban fighters in Shkin, Paktika Province, very close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, the BBC reported on 26 April. Colonel Roger King, the spokesman for U.S. forces based in Afghanistan, said approximately 20 of the fighters escaped and headed for the Pakistani border. King said the U.S.-led antiterrorism coalition forces have "made no secret of the fact" that the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan is the "highest probability of contact," adding that the "more active you are, the more possibility you have of running into enemy elements." Iranian state radio's Mashhad-based Dari service last week reported that a clash involving U.S. forces took place in Shkin on 24 April (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 25 April 2003). AT
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