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 Bomb attack kills US soldier in Afghanistan: NATO
 Updated at: 1330 PST,  Saturday, December 19, 2009
 KABUL: A bomb attack has killed another US soldier in southern Afghanistan, pushing the death toll of foreign troops to close to 500 during the war this year, NATO said Saturday.

The American was killed on Friday "as a result of an IED strike in southern Afghanistan," NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement, referring to an improvised explosive device.

So far this year 496 foreign troops have died in the country, according to a count based on a tally kept by the independent website. Of those deaths, 306 were American.

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