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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Hammersley

Naray Diaries: when bulletproofing works

Guardian Unlimited's multimedia reporter, Ben Hammersley, is embedded with the US Army in Afghanistan at Forward Operating Base Naray

While the majority of attacks in Afghanistan this weekend were in the south, with Uruzgan province seeing 70 "Taliban" killed as 100-150 attacked a coalition base, and one Nato soldier being killed, and eight others wounded, by a roadside bomb, the violence in the country is not restricted to just that area. Here, as far north as Nato forces go, troops also came under regular attack.

This picture is of the front of a Humvee that was part of a convoy to a satellite base near here. Two soldiers were lightly injured in the attack: one by shrapnel, after his vehicle was hit by a rocket propelled grenade; the other with concussion after being shot in the helmet. It's not known how many insurgents died.

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