Sunday, March 4, 2012

NATO: US troop dies, Taliban commander killed

A senior Taliban commander disguised as a woman was killed by Afghan and international forces after he opened fire with a pistol and tried to throw a grenade south of the capital Kabul.

NATO reported a U.S. troop died in a roadside bomb attack Saturday in southern Afghanistan, and a small explosion detonated in an area that houses foreign embassies and government offices in Kabul the same day, but caused no casualties.

The troop death brought to 85 the number of international service members killed so far in June _ already the deadliest month of the nearly nine-year-old war. The figure includes at least 51 Americans.

Intelligence sources tracked the …

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