08-20-2006, 10:16 AM
<b>Four US soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Afghanistan </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KABUL: Insurgents killed four US soldiers and wounded six others in separate clashes in Afghanistan on Saturday as the war-battered nation celebrated its 87th Independence Day.
Two Afghani soldiers were also killed in the worst bout of fighting since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
Three US soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a fight with Taliban militants in Pech district of the eastern Kunar province, said Col Tom Collins, the US military spokesman. In another incident on Saturday, a US soldier was killed and three others were injured in a four-hour clash with more than 100 insurgents in the southern Uruzgan province, officials said.
The American soldier who died was part of a US team training the Afghan National Army, Collins added. The clashes are part of daily violence, but they coincided with a message that the Taliban said was from their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The message from Omar came on the anniversary of Afghanistanâs independence from Britain. âCelebrating Afghan Independence Day would amount to self-deception at a time when the infidel forces of the entire world have occupied the country,â according to the message that was read by Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif.
âRise against the infidel forces and help Taliban in the jihad to free Afghanistan from the slavery of the occupiers,â the message read. agencie<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wake up USA, Hit Pakisatan and save world.
Two Afghani soldiers were also killed in the worst bout of fighting since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
Three US soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a fight with Taliban militants in Pech district of the eastern Kunar province, said Col Tom Collins, the US military spokesman. In another incident on Saturday, a US soldier was killed and three others were injured in a four-hour clash with more than 100 insurgents in the southern Uruzgan province, officials said.
The American soldier who died was part of a US team training the Afghan National Army, Collins added. The clashes are part of daily violence, but they coincided with a message that the Taliban said was from their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The message from Omar came on the anniversary of Afghanistanâs independence from Britain. âCelebrating Afghan Independence Day would amount to self-deception at a time when the infidel forces of the entire world have occupied the country,â according to the message that was read by Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif.
âRise against the infidel forces and help Taliban in the jihad to free Afghanistan from the slavery of the occupiers,â the message read. agencie<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wake up USA, Hit Pakisatan and save world.