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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Taliban down NATO helicopter in bloody week for alliance

UH-60 Black HawkTaliban militants shot down a NATO helicopter in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing four US servicemen and bringing to 23 the number of foreign soldiers killed in escalating violence this week.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter came down in Helmand province, a stronghold of Taliban fighters trying to topple the Western-backed government and eject the 130,000 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan.

"The helicopter was brought down by hostile fire," a military spokesman said, announcing the toll. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Breasseale confirmed that the dead soldiers were American.

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