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Ten foreign soldiers, including seven Americans, were killed in separate attacks on the deadliest day of the year for Western forces in Afghanistan. A US civilian contractor who trains Afghan police also died in a brazen suicide assault. HT Image The bloodshed on Monday comes as insurgents step up bombings and other attacks ahead of a major adidas samba NATO operation in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar that Washington hopes will turn the tide of the nearly nine-year war. Half the NATO deaths - five Americans - occurred in a single blast in eastern Afghanistan, US spokesman Col Wayne Shanks said without giving further details. It was a grim reminder that the insurgents can strike throughout the country, not simply in the south, which has become the main focus of the US campaign. Two other US troops were killed in separate attacks in the south - one in a bombing and the other by small arms fire. NATO said three other service mem stanley cup bers were killed in attacks in the east and south but gave no further details. The French government announced one of the victims was a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion killed by a rocket in Kapisa province northeast of Kabul. Three other Legionnaires were wounded. Australia s Defense Force Chief Lt Gen David Hurley said two Australian soldiers were among those killed, when they were hit by a blast fr jordan om an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan s Uruzgan province. I think we re just seeing a hard day in theatre, Hurley told reporte