Around 400 imprisoned Taliban were freed in a an insurgent attack on a prison in southern Afghanistan, which left more than a dozen dead, lawmakers and escaped prisoners said Saturday.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send Afghan troops across the border to fight militants in Pakistan, a forceful warning to insurgents and the Pakistani government that his country is fed up with cross-border attacks.

As of Saturday, June 14, 2008, at least 447 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department