03.02.10
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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
From NPR Tidings, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And we begin this hour in Pakistan, where the U.S. suffered a very in the open setback in its intentionally low-profile campaign against the Taliban there. Three American military personnel were killed and two wounded as their convoy roam through a district in the northwest part of the country. They were there training a Pakistani cogency to patrol the border with Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed stability for the attack.
As NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Islamabad, talk of the U.S. soldiers is sure to inflame anti-American passions there.
JULIE MCCARTHY: The American servicemen killed in the fickle district of Lower Dir where special operations forces, say sources of the Defense Pivot on, part of the approximately 200 U.S. military personnel in Pakistan. The U.S. embassy issued a expression saying that the slain Americans were conducting training of Pakistan's Far reaches Corp. Farah Naz Asfahani, media adviser to Pakistan's president, was petulant to characterize U.S. military trainers as nothing out of the ordinary.
Source: NPR