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Nov 23, 2008 10:15 am US/Eastern

U.S.: 17 Insurgents Killed In Afghan Attack

 CBS News Interactive: About Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ― The U.S. military says its troops killed 17 insurgents during a raid in southern Afghanistan.

A U.S. statement on Sunday says helicopters carried the troops into the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province, where they clashed with the militants.

It says the clash Saturday killed 17 insurgents, while no U.S. or Afghan troops died.

Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency. More than 5,200 people-mostly militants-have died in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an AP count.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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