<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64420f70-c7c1-49dd-99ef-b68af4957c90/300B7A44-8663-4F41-82EE-8C25DE021C5D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.latimes.com/img/65E32086-9911-4EDC-A5C0-A5AD18F86EF0" alt="U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story"><P class="small"> U.S. soldiers keep watch during an operation in a village in Kandahar province. U.S. Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal has requested as many as 40,000 additional troops for the mission in Afghanistan. <SPAN class="credit">(<SPAN class="photographer">Omar Sobhani / Reuters</SPAN> / <SPAN class="dateMonth">October </SPAN><SPAN class="dateDay">27</SPAN><SPAN class="dateYear">, 2009</SPAN></SPAN>)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story">An early morning assault on a Kabul guest house by attackers armed with suicide vests and assault rifles killed six U.N. workers today, just a day after eight U.S. troops died in a pair of roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the eight-year war for American forces.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story"><DIV> The campaign of violence foreshadowed an effort by the Taliban to disrupt a presidential runoff election that is less than two weeks away and came as a consensus is emerging within the Obama administration that more U.S. troops are needed in the country.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths28-2009oct28,0,6008774.story"><DIV> The deaths of the U.S. troops Tuesday brought the total number of U.S. service members killed during the month to at least 53, according to the independent website <A href="http://www.icasualties.org">icasualties.org</A>.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/300B7A44-8663-4F41-82EE-8C25DE021C5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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