08/06/2010 As occupation forces in Afghanistan readied for a great offensive in the Southern province of Kandahar, a string of deadly attacks took place killing 10 NATO troops and two foreign contractors in an obvious message that Afghanistan is not obedient to the occupiers.
The death toll of occupation troops killed so far this year raised to 245, according to an AFP tally based on a count kept by the independent website icasualties.org.
Six US occupation soldiers were killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and another was killed by small arms fire, Washington announced.
Two Australians, who were training Afghan troops, were killed by a roadside bomb during a patrol in the province of Uruzgan, officials in Australia said.
France said one of its troops was killed and three others wounded in a rocket attack by Taliban militants in the east of the country.
Separately, two foreign contractors, one of them an American, were killed in a suicide attack on an Afghan police training center in the southern city of Kandahar, the US embassy said.
NATO and US troops are preparing their biggest offensive yet against the Taliban in Kandahar province, with total foreign troop numbers in the country set to peak at 150,000 by August.
Monday's toll was the highest for a single day since the deaths of 11 French occupation soldiers on one day in August 2008. The latest killings follow the deaths Sunday of five NATO occupation soldiers, four of them Americans, in two separate attacks and a vehicle accident.
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