Ten Foreign Explosion Troops Killed In Afghanistan

Foreign troops, including seven U.S. soldiers killed in attack in Afghanistan yesterday in what was the biggest single-day death toll of military personnel this year.

Five Americans died in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman. The other two died in separate attacks in the south, killed by an a-bomb and the other by small arms.



An explosives detection, but also died, but there were no other deaths among Australian and Afghan soldiers on the scene. Monday was the fateful day on coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan this year, Australians were among the 10 NATO soldiers killed part.

Rudd, who has called the war "unpopular", 450 reinforcements sent last year, but has resisted Washington's calls to give two more and Tuesday reiterated its position that Canberra's involvement "is about right."

"We've never enlarged carte blanche when it comes to our forces involvement," he told reporters in Sydney. The Prime Minister said there were signs that Australian troops were made in the former Taliban center of Uruzgan, where the ice mentoring Afghan national army soldiers.

NATO is preparing its next major operation in Kandahar province, the Taliban movement's birthplace - the key to the Obama administration's strategy two turnaround almost nine years of war. Australia is the largest contributor outside NATO for Afghanistan campaign, with 1550 soldiers. They are under NATO command.