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| Suicide Bomber Kills 5 French Soldiers in Afghanistan |
| 2011-07-14 |
| A suicide bomber killed five French soldiers guarding a meeting between NATO officers and Afghan tribal elders on Wednesday morning northeast of the capital, one of the bloodiest days for French troops in Afghanistan. The deaths, confirmed in a statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, occurred just one day after he visited Kabul and announced that France would withdraw 1,000 of its approximately 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. The suicide attack came as the President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan leaders converged in southern Afghanistan for the funeral of the presidentÂ’s powerful half brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, a power broker and sometimes nettlesome ally of the American military who was assassinated by a close associate on Tuesday morning. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Duty, honor, country. May that thought bring some comfort to those they leave behind to mourn. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-14 08:19 |