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KABUL: American warplanes pounded a suspected Taliban safe haven in the mountainsides of southern Afghanistan in an assault that left up to 60 insurgents, five policemen and seven Afghan soldiers dead and five U.S. soldiers wounded, officials said. Two American CH-47 helicopters were damaged during 11 hours of fighting on Tuesday at a rebel ``safe haven,'' a US military statement said. One made an emergency landing before it was repaired, while the other managed to fly back to a nearby coalition base. A U.S. military spokesman said about 40 rebels had been killed, but Gen. Salim Khan, commander of about 400 Afghan policemen who also took part in the fighting, said his men had recovered the bodies of 60 suspected insurgents. Some 30 militants were captured, including eight who were wounded, he said. Gen. Khan said that in addition to the five slain Afghan police officers, three were also injured in the gunbattle on the border between the southern provinces of Kandahar and Zabul. Beside the seven Afghan soldiers killed, three were wounded, he said. — AP
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