In Afghan village, Taliban insurgents ambush U.S. patrol

GONDALABUK, Afghanistan — A platoon from the 1st Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment and another from the Illinois Army National Guard drove up the lone road into the village of Doab in 16 Humvees, accompanied by four truckloads of Afghan police officers and soldiers on an “overnight patrol.” For the first 20 hours, all had gone smoothly. It wasn’t until midnight on the day they had arrived last month in the isolated village that translators listening to three languages – Dari, Kata and Pashai – heard chatter that indicated that insurgents were preparing an ambush. More World News Wire Israeli cartoon mocks stereotypes, but not everyone’s laughing In Afghan…

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