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Four U.S. Troops Killed In Afghanistan
  
January 4, 2010 8:26 a.m. EST
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Topics: Politics, United States
 
Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor
 
Kabul, Afghanistan (AHN) - American forces in Afghanistan suffered their first deaths of the year after four troops died in a bomb attack.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. soldiers were killed on Sunday when they were struck by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
The deaths are the first for 2010, according to the tally of icasualties.org. Fatalities among American troops in 2009, the deadliest year for U.S. forces in the war, totaled 319.
A soldier from the 1st Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment died in a separate attack, the British Ministry of Defense has announced. The British soldier died after an explosion while on foot patrol in Helmand province.
The deaths come a day after NATO and U.S. commander Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited the province to meet with local leaders about security issues. The southern river valley was where the Obama administration launched its first offensive in the war.
Operation Khanjar or Strike of the Sword had 4,000 Marines and 650 Afghan soldiers sweeping through the river valley, where over 90 percent of Afghanistan's opium is harvested and where militants support their activities with revenue from one of the world's largest poppy fields.
The visit in Helmand "brought the government of Afghanistan, its security forces and local leaders together in an area that will be important to the future of this country," McChrystal said over the weekend.
The Pentagon announced the deployment of 16,000 troops to add to the 68,000 soldiers currently in Afghanistan. The new troops are part of the 30,000 additional forces authorized by President Barack Obama in his November address from West Point. The added soldiers include about 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
The U.S.-led war is now in its ninth year. American forces will begin drawing down in 2011.
 
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