Afghan official rejects U.S military claim
A top Afghan border police official Friday rejected U.S. military claims that 10 people who died in an American airstrike were militants, insisting they were police officers. Insurgents, meanwhile, killed a coalition soldier in an ambush. The U.S. military said it was investigating Thursday’s coalition airstrike in southeastern Paktika province but believed it had struck insurgents fleeing the scene of an attack on U.S. and Afghan troops. Full Story