On the Front / Pakistan Bomb Kills 3 Gis -- Secretive Operation Against Militants

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SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan - The deaths of three American special operations soldiers in a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday drew unwanted attention to a U.S. program of training local forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida.

The killings were the first known U.S. military fatalities in nearly three years in Pakistan's Afghan border region, where militants are being pummeled by U.S. missile strikes and struggling to regroup following the loss of a key stronghold in a recent Pakistani army offensive.

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On the Front / Pakistan Bomb Kills 3 Gis -- Secretive Operation Against Militants

The soldiers were part of a small group of American soldiers training members of the paramilitary Frontier Co...

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