AFGHANISTAN-TERRORISM: Pentagon exposes losses

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Att.Editors: The following item is from the Qatar News Agency (QNA)

WASHNGTON, Apr 2 2003 (IPS) - The Pentagon on Wednesday for the first time announced the losses the US special forces sustained in their hunt for Osama bin Laden.

The assistant secretary of defense told Congress that 175 US soldiers of the special forces were killed or listed missing in battles in Afghanistan.

Two soldiers from the special forces were the latest killed in an ambush in south Afghanistan recently.