5 French troops killed by bomber
A suicide bomber killed five French soldiers guarding a meeting between NATO officers and Afghan tribal elders northeast of Kabul on Wednesday, one of the bloodiest days for French troops in Afghanistan.
The attack took place in a village in the Tagab District of Kapisa Province and came just a day after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Kabul and announced that France would withdraw 1,000 of its 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year.
PAKISTANI SPY CHIEF OPENS TRIP TO U.S.
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, flew to Washington for talks with senior CIA officials.
There were indications that the talks might lead to the freeing of Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor jailed in Pakistan for helping the CIA track Osama bin Laden. The CIA had recruited Afridi to obtain DNA samples from people living in a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where U.S. officials suspected that Bin Laden was staying. It was unclear whether the doctor had been successful in that effort.
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