The soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission in the Surobi district, an area known as a militant redoubt about 30 miles east of the Afghan capital.France has 2,600 troops in Afghanistan and the French Prime Minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, had wanted to increase the number by 700.
Qazi Suliman, the district chief in Surobi, said the ambush sparked a three-hour gunbattle. Sarkozy confirmed that 10 soldiers from the 8th infantry parachute regiment were killed and 21 wounded.
An Afghan official said four of the soldiers were kidnapped by insurgents and killed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information.
Suliman said he had a report that 13 militants were killed. NATO said it sent reinforcements and a "large number" of the 100 attackers died.
At about the same time, group of suicide bombers attempted to storm a US base, but were unsuccessful at penetrating the base defenses. The attackers were killed or detonated their suicide vests.
Both attacks were claimed by the Taliban. You can bet that the events in next door Pakistan have something to do with the attacks in Afghanistan since the terrorists in Afghanistan can regroup and rearm from over the border. Pakistan also witnessed a terrorist attack, this time at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, which killed 20 people.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed 43 people in Algeria when the attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into a crowd of people outside a police academy. Watch for an al Qaeda aligned group to take credit there.
Note also that the majority of the victims were civilians - Muslims in fact. These jihadis, who claim to attack the West and the infidels, often end up murdering fellow Muslims (albeit those who are insufficiently Muslim for the jihadis).
To that end, Pakistan's NWFP parliament passed a resolution mandating Islamic law as a way to end the violence. Never mind that Islamic law is violent, misogynistic and harms the rights of non Muslims.
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