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7 Afghan security forces killed in NATO air strike

Saturday, November 07, 2009 KABUL: Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike that also injured international forces in remote western Afghanistan, the Afghan defence ministry said on Saturday.The Afghan statement comes as NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was investigating an incident in Badghis province Friday in which more than 25 international and Afghan forces were wounded.Five of the 25 wounded were US soldiers injured in what a Western military official, speaking anonymously, said was friendly fire.However, ISAF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Todd Vician, of the US Air Force, told a foreign news agency: "We have nothing to confirm friendly fire.""No ISAF members were killed," he said, confirming only that five ISAF soldiers injured in the Badghis incident were Americans.Investigations into the incident were ongoing and no further details were available, Vician said.Afghan defence ministry spokesm...