Pakistan Says U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 of Its Soldiers
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Jun 12, 2008, 8:18:21 AM6/12/08
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Pakistan Says U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 of Its Soldiers
By CARLOTTA GALL and GRAHAM BOWLEY [New YOok TImes]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government on Wednesday [Juen 11,
2008] condemned American air and artillery strikes that it said
killed
11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers during a clash on the Afghan
border
Tuesday night.
The Pakistani soldiers appeared to have been caught up in a firefight
between coalition forces and Taliban fighters in Kunar Province, on
the Afghan side of the border. A spokesman for the Taliban said their
forces had attacked an American and Afghan position near the border
and said eight of their fighters had been killed and nine wounded in
the fighting.
The American military in Afghanistan and Pentagon officials said that
coalition forces responded to fire from “anti-Afghan forces,” their
name for insurgents who frequently cross the border from sanctuaries
in Pakistan to mount attacks in Afghanistan.
A Pentagon official in Washington [DC] said that after coalition
forces returned fire on the ground, two United States Air Force F-15E
fighter-bombers and one B-1 bomber dropped about a dozen bombs —
mostly 500-pound laser-guided munitions — on the attackers.
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By CARLOTTA GALL and GRAHAM BOWLEY [New YOok TImes]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government on Wednesday [Juen 11,
2008] condemned American air and artillery strikes that it said
killed
11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers during a clash on the Afghan
border
Tuesday night.
The Pakistani soldiers appeared to have been caught up in a firefight
between coalition forces and Taliban fighters in Kunar Province, on
the Afghan side of the border. A spokesman for the Taliban said their
forces had attacked an American and Afghan position near the border
and said eight of their fighters had been killed and nine wounded in
the fighting.
The American military in Afghanistan and Pentagon officials said that
coalition forces responded to fire from “anti-Afghan forces,” their
name for insurgents who frequently cross the border from sanctuaries
in Pakistan to mount attacks in Afghanistan.
A Pentagon official in Washington [DC] said that after coalition
forces returned fire on the ground, two United States Air Force F-15E
fighter-bombers and one B-1 bomber dropped about a dozen bombs —
mostly 500-pound laser-guided munitions — on the attackers.
...
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