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NATO airstrike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops (AP)

July 7th, 2010

A US soldier keeps watch in Kandahar City in June, 2010. NATO Wednesday added three deaths to the toll of foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, all of them killed by crude bombs favoured by the insurgents.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AP - NATO mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an airstrike Wednesday while the Afghans were attacking insurgents in the country’s east, officials said.


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