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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chartseer who wrote (73105)	10/4/2009 7:17:45 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 224729

Sun Oct 4, 2009 6:16am EDT (Reuters) - Insurgents stormed remote outposts in eastern Afghanistan killing eight Americans in the deadliest battle in more than a year near the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday. The fighting took place in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province in high mountains on the eastern border with Pakistan. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001: NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: United States 867 Britain 219 Canada 131 Germany 35 France 35* Denmark 25** Spain 25 Netherlands 21 Italy 21 Other nations 63 TOTAL: 1,442 NOTES: * Figures supplied by French military. ** Figures supplied by Danish Central Command, includes one suicide. Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)