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Death trap. The worst loss of life for the US in months just as the president faces some hard choices on the war in Afghanistan. Firefight. New details on the intense battle in Afghanistan that killed eight US troops and the extraordinary efforts of the injured. Tonight US force in Afghanistan on the hunt for Taliban militants who killed eight American soldiers in the deadliest single battle in more than a year.

I’m Katie Couric. The weekend attack was almost a rerun of one of the worst ambushes of the war.

“Those figures are American soldiers lying dead on the ground.” Tonight, as the president prepares to make some critical decisions about additional troops and a new strategy, we begin special extensive coverage of Afghanistan: The Road Ahead. This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

 

Good evening, everyone. Pressure is building tonight on president Obama to come up with a new strategy for Afghanistan as US casualties there continue to mount. Hundreds of Taliban militants attacked the US outpost(전초부대) over the weekend killing eight soldiers in the deadliest attack in more than a year. Today US and Afghan forces reportedly sealed off an area where the attackers are believed to be hiding. The ambush happened in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan. Mandy Clark is in the Afghan capital of Kabul tonight with the very latest.

 

The fierce battle took place in this remote mountainous region bordering Pakistan. About 300 local insurgents launched a coordinated early morning attack Saturday against the American outpost which was being defended by just 140 US and afghan soldiers. After a bloody daylong firefight, American air support was finally able to break the siege and drive off the insurgents. US forces have suffered some of their worst casualties in this isolated province where they’re trying to control the high mountain passes that insurgents used to cross the border. The weekend’s heavy losses highlight a problem the US is struggling to deal with. Under the new strategy, American forces will abandon isolated combat outposts that are just too difficult to defend. The tragedy here is eight US soldiers died fighting for an outpost that was going to close down anyway. Mandy Clark, CBS News, Kabul.

 

That battle here in Kamdesh was almost a carving copy of one of the worst ambushes of the war. Just 20 miles away in Wanat, nine US soldiers were killed there in July of last year. In both attacks, American soldiers were sitting ducks(독안의 쥐) overexposed and outnumbered in enemy territory.

The pentagon has called the Afghan war an economy of force operation meaning there simply are not enough troops. And critics say the two deadly ambushes were the tragic and inevitable result.

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