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CIAO DATE: 1/5/2007
Afghan Update: Oct. 1 – Oct. 31, 2006
Thomas Keller
November 2006
Abstract
Coalition Forces
On Oct. 2 two U.S. and one Afghan soldier were killed in an insurgent attack in Kunar province. Three Americans were also wounded.
A U.S. patrol was targeted by a suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan on Oct. 7 – the five-year anniversary of the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom – no casualties were reported.
Six men delivering aid from American forces were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Oct. 14.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops raided an insurgent hideout in Ghazni Province on Oct. 17; one soldier was wounded and three militants killed.
