After Hizbullah attacked an IDF border patrol, abducted two soldiers and began bombarding the North with rockets and missiles, prime minister Ehud Olmert declared that Israel would return to Lebanon and defeat Hizbullah.

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The Centcom memo also condemns Israel's July 2006 decision to respond to Hizbullah's unprovoked bombardment of northern Israel and its unprovoked cross-border attack against an IDF patrol in which five soldiers were killed and two were kidnapped and subsequently murdered.

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Israel's conflict with Palestinian militants in Gaza spread to Lebanon after the Lebanese Hizbullah party attacked an Israeli patrol on Israel's northern border, captured two soldiers and killed five more.

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Sgt McMellon said he should have been informed of the patrol, adding that he would never have sent two soldiers out on their own into enemy territory "in the middle of nowhere".

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One of two UK soldiers killed when explosion hit an armoured Snatch Land Rover patrol on a routine task.

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In Diyala province, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi Army patrol in Balad Ruz Sunday morning, killing at least two soldiers and wounding 10 others, a security official in the province said.

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The next day, a roadside bomb killed three American soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan, while a suicide bomber wounded two more NATO troops south of Kabul.

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