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Afghan election talks failure

CNN News: Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his election opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, have broken down, a Western source close to the Afghan leadership told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Friday.

According to the source, Abdullah will likely announce this weekend that he will boycott the runoff presidential election slated for November 7, a runoff that had been scheduled after intense diplomatic arm twisting by the United States.

In a Thursday interview with Amanpour, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad had predicted that the country would soon be governed under a power-sharing deal.

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8 More U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan

CNN News: The U.S. military suffered another day of heavy losses in Afghanistan on Tuesday as roadside bombs killed eight soldiers.

An Afghan civilian working with NATO troops also was killed in the attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said. The officials said that, according to initial reports, one blast took place just outside Kandahar and the other was in neighboring Zabul province.

Seven of the soldiers who died were traveling together in one vehicle, said Sgt. Jerome Baysmore with the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement of condolence: “As always our prayers go out to those who have lost a loved one and for those who sacrificed so much to serve our country.”

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Taliban Attacked U.S. Chopper Killed 10 Soldiers

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10 Americans including three DEA agents were killed in a Taliban attacking. As report, a U.S. military helicopter crashed Monday while returning from the scene of a firefight  in western Afghanistan.

Another 4 troops were killed when two helicopters collided over southern Afghanistan.

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“We don’t believe that either one of them were due to enemy fire or hostile intent we are still investigating the cause of it,” Col. Wayne Shanks said to media.

Taliban commander’s claim that the helicopter was hit with heavy machine gun fire and a rocket propelled grenade while it was low to the ground seems to be consistent with what happened.

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14 Americans Soldiers killed in Afghanistan

CNN NEWS: 14 Americans Soldiers died in a copter collisions in Afghanistan on Monday. And in this crash, a helicopter went down in the country’s west.

Enemy action was not suspected in the crash, the U.S. military said.

copter collisions“The incident is currently being investigated, but it is confirmed that hostile fire was not involved,” ISAF said in an earlier news release.

A recovery operation was launched.

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U.S. Service Member Killed in Afghan

CBS News, A bomb killed an American service member in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Sunday, as Afghan police fired shots in the air to disperse up to 1,000 students protesting a rumor that U.S. troops burned a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran.

A U.S. statement said the American was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan but gave no further details.

At least 34 U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan this month.

This has been the deadliest year for international and U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Fighting spiked around the presidential vote in August, and 51 U.S. soldiers died that month – the deadliest for American forces in the eight-year war.

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