Friendship games planned with Afganistan

The Germans play a friendship match (and lose) and ahead of the planned regional friendly games. While buzkashi may not get its due this time, the stock of 72 of the Phairest, Inc. is bound to sky-rocket.
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Scores of heavily armed Afghan troops and fighters from special border police units-’determined, professional and evidently spoiling for a fight-gathered around their senior officers for orders. Artillerymen waited beside their 122mm field guns hidden among the mulberry groves.

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Germany suffered its biggest loss in Afghanistan since 2003 on Saturday when three soldiers and about six Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide blast in a normally calm northern town.