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April 5, 2012

Afghanistan: U.S. Soldiers, Afghan Police Killed in 2 Attacks As Senator Urges Exit 
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In news from Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people
Wednesday, including four U.S. soldiers who had strayed from their base
to take photographs in a park despite warnings not to roam around the
city. The killings occurred in Maymana, the capital of the relatively
peaceful Faryab province. In western Afghanistan, Taliban gunmen have
reportedly killed eight local Afghan police officers. Meanwhile
Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia has sent a letter to
President Obama urging him to accelerate withdrawal from Afghanistan,
arguing that recent steps to pull troops back from combat in 2013 do not
go far enough.



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