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By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(May 19) -- Suicide bombers armed with rockets and grenades launched a brazen assault before dawn today on the largest U.S. air base in Afghanistan, sparking a fierce battle that left 10 guerrillas and an American contractor dead. Nine other U.S. troops were wounded in today's attack on Bagram Air Base just north of Kabul, the U.S. military said. It comes a day after a suicide car bomber rammed into a NATO convoy in the capital, killing five American troops and a Canadian in the deadliest attack on foreign forces in Afghanistan in eight months. Tuesday's deaths helped raise the U.S. death ...
Wounded GIs in Afghanistan: Casualties More Seriously Injured Than in Iraq
By David Wood - Politics DailyFORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- They are the invisible casualties of this war, the 2,194 Americans who have been badly wounded in battle here. More are coming. Stunned, torn and bleeding, they are extracted from dusty battlefields in wild, shouting chaos, and because they are so quickly rushed into the hands of trauma nurses and surgeons, more of them survive than in past wars. ...
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