Afghanistan authorities play down shootout

Friday, May 23, 2003

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan authorities on Thursday played down a deadly shooting incident outside the American Embassy in Kabul in which U.S. Marines killed at least three Afghan troops, saying relations between the two nations would not be undermined.

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