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Suicide Bombers and Gunmen Attack Afghan Police Complex, Killing 6
By not in system - AOL NewsKANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Suicide bombers and gunmen stormed a police compound in southern Afghanistan Thursday, opening fire and setting off explosions in a coordinated attack that killed six Afghan security forces. American Black Hawk helicopters and at least eight U.S. armored vehicles rushed to support dozens of Afghan troops battling the assailants at the three-building police complex in restive Kandahar province. One suicide bomber pretended to be an ambulance driver and detonated his explosives after wounded officers were loaded inside the marked rescue vehicle, said Kandahar Police ...
Afghan Officials: 2 Suspects in Custody for UN Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say they have in custody at least two former insurgents suspected of involvement in the killing of seven U.N. workers during a riot last week in the northern city over Quran burning in the United States. Lawmaker Mohammad Akbari said on Wednesday that a government team investigating the April 1 attack against the U.N. headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif has identified three men believed involved in the killing of three U.N. staff members and four Nepalese guards. A chief investigator with the Interior Ministry, Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, claims two of the ...
Afghan President: Shooter in Police Uniform Kills 2 Americans
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A man wearing an Afghan border police uniform shot dead two American military personnel tasked with helping train members of the country's security forces on Monday, NATO and Afghan officials said. The assailant fled and it was not known whether he was a police officer who turned on his Western counterparts or an insurgent disguising himself in uniform to infiltrate the northern compound and attack from inside. There have been cases of both in Afghanistan, exposing the vulnerability even of foreign trainers involved in preparing Afghan forces to take the lead in battling ...
Quran Protests Spread to Turbulent Afghan East
By not in system - AOL NewsJALALABAD, Afghanistan - Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of rage over a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran. An officer was shot dead in a second day of clashes in the city of Kandahar, said provincial health director Qayum Pokhla. Two officers and 18 civilians were wounded, he said. In Jalalabad, the largest city in the east, hundreds of people blocked the main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave, burning an effigy ...
Afghanistan's President Blasts US Troops for Gruesome Afghan Deaths
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's president says U.S. soldiers charged with murder in the deaths last year of three unarmed Afghans had killed them for entertainment, after taking drugs. Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade. The troops have been charged in the United States with murder and conspiracy in the slaying of three men in southern Afghanistan. The remarks on Wednesday were Karzai's first public comments on the issue that came to light after a series of graphic photos showing the soldiers from an Olympia, Washington-based platoon, posing ...
Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill 23, Wound Dozens in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A team of suicide bombers shot their way into the compound of a road construction company in eastern Afghanistan and detonated a truck loaded with explosives, killing 23 people and wounding about 60, the Afghan government said Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which the Interior Ministry said occurred late Sunday in the Barmal district of Paktika province. The ministry said three attackers went up to the gate of the Zahir construction company, shot the guard, and then drove a large truck that was full of explosives into the compound where they ...
Taliban Claim to Have Kidnapped 50 Afghan Police
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed Sunday that it kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in northeastern Afghanistan -- part of the insurgents' murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the U.S.-backed government. Also Sunday, a NATO service member was killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said. No details were released about the death, which raised to 94 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year. Militants ambushed the policemen Saturday afternoon after being tipped off that they would be traveling in Kunar ...
NATO Airstrike Accidentally Kills 2 Civilians in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO helicopter gunship inadvertently killed two civilians while attacking suspected insurgents in the northern province of Khost, NATO announced Thursday. The attack targeted was a Haqqani network leader in Tere Zayi district on Wednesday, according to NATO. "At the time of the strike, two civilians were walking near the moving targeted vehicle," NATO said Thursday. "They were previously unseen by coalition forces prior to the initiation of the airstrike. Unfortunately both were killed as an unintended result of the strike." Khost provincial police chief Abdul Hakim ...
House Rejects Proposal to Pull Troops from Afghanistan
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe House on Thursday rejected a proposal calling for the removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, news agencies reported. The resolution, sponsored by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was turned down 93 to 321. But The Hill and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland noted it had more support this time than in 2010 when the House rejected a similar Kucinich measure 65 to 356. Kucinich said Congress should assert its authority over the war, though others argued that lawmakers should trust military leaders and President Obama. Support for continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has ...
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