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September 1, 2003 SB UK BATTALlOf Two US soldiers perish in Afghanistan firefight By Noor Khan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS QALAT, Afghanistan — Two American soldiers were killed Sunday in a firefight with suspect ed Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan, while hundreds of Taliban poured into remote south ern mountains to join a week-long battle with Afghan forces and their U.S. allies. The soldiers died and another was wounded in a 90-minute gun- battle in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province, near the Pakistani border. Four guerrillas also were killed. It was the latest in escalating violence in Afghanistan, where guerrillas from the radical Islamic Taliban regime have appeared to regroup, launching bolder and better coordinated attacks against Afghan govern ment targets. Four U.S. soldiers have been killed during fighting in less than two weeks. In the south. U.S fighter jets and helicopters pummeled entrenched rebel positions for a seventh day in the mountains of Zabul province. U.S. troops and their Afghan allies have been battling for a week with Taliban forces that have put up tough resistance. Dozens ol suspected ialiban have been killed in the onslaught, one of the fiercest since the hardline group was driven from power in late 2001. U.S. warplanes bombed the area in Dai Chupan district for three hours before dawn, then carried out several more bomb ing sorties before mx»n. Afghan soldiers sweeping the area after dawn saw 14 newly killed Taliban fighters, said Khalil llotitk. the intelligence chief of southern Zabul province. There were no reports of casualties among government forces. It was not possible to independently confirm Hotak’s reports. He spoke to The Associated Press at an opera tions center in Qalat. the provin cial capital about 70 kilometers (42 miles) south of the fighting. U.S. military spokesman Col. Rodney Davis said Saturday that 33 Taliban have been killed in the southern recent fighting, but Afghan officials put the insur gent death loll much higher. An Afghan military com mander speaking from l.ar/ab. Firefight kills two Two U S soldiers were kdlec SufKlay by suspected Talibar. > fighters in Afghanistan wtiee ! increased guerrilla warfares biking place Three U S sokfcr were wounded in initial aflacw UZBK 100 km TURKM TAI /it Kabul AFGHANISTAN ° SNun_ SOOKCStt A^taMPTW rsi«,l one of the front-line locatiot the battle, said Sumlas tt intelligence from an mfof& among the Taliban indict more Ialiban rcintnrctie fighters had arrived in the* The U.S.-allied Afyi forces have also brought in r forcements, increasing k numbers from 500 to 800 i- diers. Hotak said. The coalition has 1 1.500* diers hunting down lalihaE al-Qaida fighters, mainly ml south and east of the countn ! Carbonated milk to hit market MILFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Adding bubbles to milk is tricky. Pump in too many, and it foams over. Add too few and why bother. George and Mary Ann Clark, husband-and-wife entrepreneurs, have spent the past seven years trying to find the balance. Last week, they started produc tion on a carbonated milk-based drink called Refreshing Power Milk — RPM — and they already have orders coming in from school districts. Mary Ann Clark, a registered nurse, said she was pained to see children drinking cola and shunning milk when she worked in schools so she decided to do something about it. She and her biochemist husband started work on a iilk drink in I9U6 and founded Mac to. ly sells eMoo. m sday. in a factoryfs How cow out front! caroona Inc. in I99X. The company alrt carbonated milk drink. On Wed a barn-fed roof and purple-and-' first batch of RPM was bottled. 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