KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Ham...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai reprobateed a U.S. airstrike Thursday that Afghan officials said killed 10 border policemen.

The U military said it was investigating the airstrike, still believed it had struck insurgents fleeing the exhibition of an attack on U and Afghan companys

Afghanistan is going between the walls of its worst period of violence since the US-l invasion that ousted the hard-line Taliban regime in late 2001 for hosting Osama bin Laden.

Karzai said he was "shock and angered" on the airstrike in southeastern Paktika province.

"I have repeatedly asked the coalition forces to take maximum caution while carrying on the outside operations and I want that incidents like this must not be repeated," he said in a statement.

Sixteen other clan died in violence around the political division including an American soldier slain from a Soviet-era land mine.

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