General McChrystal said that shaping operations in Kandahar have already begun. Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban commander and killed or detained an undisclosed number of fighters in Kunar, Kandahar, and Helmand. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a premature detonation in Helmand. The Paris Club agreed to cancel more than $1.6 billion of Afghanistan's debt.
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