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Posted: 11:07 AM Aug 28, 2010
Insurgents Wearing U.S. Military Uniforms Launch Attack in Afghanistan
U.S. and Afghan troops have repelled a pair of attacks by insurgents wearing U.S. Army uniforms and suicide vests.
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U.S. and Afghan troops have repelled a pair of attacks by insurgents wearing U.S. Army uniforms and suicide vests.
The pre-dawn assaults targeted NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack last year.
NATO and Afghan police say dozens of insurgents stormed Forward Operating Base Salerno and nearby Camp Chapman with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons.
NATO says 21 attackers were killed and five captured. Three more insurgents, including a commander, were killed in an airstrike as they fled the area.
NATO, which said earlier there were no coalition casualties, now says four U.S. troops were hurt. And the Afghan Defense Ministry says two Afghan soldiers were killed and three wounded.
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