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Three U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Afghan Ambush

Three U.S. Marines have been wounded, one seriously, in an ambush in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, the U.S. military said on Monday, the latest sign of growing violence in the insurgency-gripped south. A bomb exploded next to their convoy on Saturday in Kandahar, a former bastion of the ousted Taliban militia which U.S.-led forces drove from power in 2001, a U.S. military spokesman said. Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager described the attack as an ambush but would not release further details about the bomb or whether the incident involved Taliban guerrillas, whose insurgency in the province has picked up in recent weeks. Full Story