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Suicide Attack at Afghan Police HQ Kills 12
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Nov. 27) -- Two suicide bombers wearing police uniforms blew themselves up at an Afghan police headquarters Saturday, killing at least 12 officers in a deadly border region that has long been a refuge for Islamist extremists from around the world, officials said. In a statement e-mailed to the media, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks in the eastern Paktika province. Nawab Waziry, the head of Paktika's provincial council, said both men wore police uniforms and made it through three security gates before reaching the main building on the police compound. ...
Policeman, Soldier, Anti-Taliban Fighter: A Small Success Story
By David Wood - Politics DailyKUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- When the Taliban fought their way into his village, a young man named Noor Mohammed fled with a few friends to the mountains above this bustling market city in northern Afghanistan. While the Taliban conducted reprisal killings and went around smashing radios and confiscating children's kites and forcing women into full-cover burqas, Mohammed foraged for food, bargained weapons from smugglers, and joined the armed resistance. "We had no choice,'' he said. I asked him what those years were like. "My stomach was always empty,'' he replied. His fortunes began to change ...
NATO: 6 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (July 10) - Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks Saturday in Afghanistan's volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as Taliban militants push back against stepped-up operations by international and Afghan forces. NATO said four U.S. service members died in the east: One as a result of small-arms fire, another by a roadside bomb, a third during an insurgent attack and the last in an accidental explosion. Two other U.S. troops died in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan. Their deaths raised to 23 ...
Taliban Attack USAID Compound in Afghanistan
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(July 2) -- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a USAID compound in northern Afghanistan today, killing at least five people and wounding 24. The governor of Kunduz province said the dead included a British citizen, a German private security guard and a Filipino, as well as two Afghan policemen, according to Radio Free Europe. Militants hit the newly opened offices of Development Alternatives Inc. -- a consulting company that works closely with USAID on issues of governance and community development -- in the early hours of the morning. Gov. Mohammad Omar told Reuters that a suicide ...
Afghanistan: How the Kunduz Air Strike Shapes the Debate
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe bombs fell about three hours before dawn. Two seven-foot-long steel torpedo shapes sliced silently through the darkness, each packed with 192 pounds of Tritonal high explosive, released and guided by American F-15E strike fighters high over Kunduz province, Afghanistan. ...
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