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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/29/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-attack.html?cmp=rss
A Canadian soldier and 12 American troops, as well as four Afghans, were killed in a suicide car bombing on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday.
The Canadian military confirmed the death to CBC News following initial statements from a U.S. official that all 13 NATO casualties were Americans.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives near Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings.
Afghan officials said three Afghan civilians and one policeman were killed by the bomber.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene said that NATO and Afghan forces had sealed off the area.
Two NATO helicopters landed to airlift casualties.
The back end of a NATO bus appeared to have been blown apart and was turned into a charred shell.
"A suicide bomber car targeted a convoy of coalition forces, there are casualties among civilians and coalition troops," said Kabul's police chief, General Mohammad Ayub Salangi, at the scene.
The attack occurred near Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings on the southwest outskirts of Kabul. Here, Afghans play football in front of the destroyed Darulaman Palace in this 2008 file photo.
The Taliban claim of responsibility came shortly after the attack in a text message to media outlets.
It was the deadliest of two attacks in the day that targeted either the U.S.-led coalition or Afghan government offices in the country.
Earlier Saturday, a female suicide bomber blew herself up as she tried to attack a local government office in the capital of Kunar province, a hotbed of militancy in northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border.
Abdul Sabor Allayar, deputy provincial police chief, said the guards outside the government's intelligence office in Asad Abad became suspicious of the woman and started shooting, at which point she detonated her explosives.
There were no other casualties in that attack.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces conducted operations earlier this month, killing more than 100 insurgents in an effort to curb violence in rugged areas of Kunar where the coalition and Afghan government have a light footprint.
Farther south along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Afghan and coalition forces captured two leaders of the Haqqani network and two other suspected insurgents in Sarobi district of Paktika province, the coalition said.
Haqqani fighters, who are affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, are heavily rooted in Paktika and neighbouring Paktia and Khost provinces.
One of the captured leaders provided insurgent fighters with funding, weapons, supplies and hideouts, and the other coordinated attacks against Afghan forces, the coalition said.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/29/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-attack.html?cmp=rss
A Canadian soldier and 12 American troops, as well as four Afghans, were killed in a suicide car bombing on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday.
The Canadian military confirmed the death to CBC News following initial statements from a U.S. official that all 13 NATO casualties were Americans.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives near Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings.
Afghan officials said three Afghan civilians and one policeman were killed by the bomber.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene said that NATO and Afghan forces had sealed off the area.
Two NATO helicopters landed to airlift casualties.
The back end of a NATO bus appeared to have been blown apart and was turned into a charred shell.
"A suicide bomber car targeted a convoy of coalition forces, there are casualties among civilians and coalition troops," said Kabul's police chief, General Mohammad Ayub Salangi, at the scene.
The attack occurred near Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings on the southwest outskirts of Kabul. Here, Afghans play football in front of the destroyed Darulaman Palace in this 2008 file photo.
The Taliban claim of responsibility came shortly after the attack in a text message to media outlets.
It was the deadliest of two attacks in the day that targeted either the U.S.-led coalition or Afghan government offices in the country.
Earlier Saturday, a female suicide bomber blew herself up as she tried to attack a local government office in the capital of Kunar province, a hotbed of militancy in northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border.
Abdul Sabor Allayar, deputy provincial police chief, said the guards outside the government's intelligence office in Asad Abad became suspicious of the woman and started shooting, at which point she detonated her explosives.
There were no other casualties in that attack.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces conducted operations earlier this month, killing more than 100 insurgents in an effort to curb violence in rugged areas of Kunar where the coalition and Afghan government have a light footprint.
Farther south along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Afghan and coalition forces captured two leaders of the Haqqani network and two other suspected insurgents in Sarobi district of Paktika province, the coalition said.
Haqqani fighters, who are affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, are heavily rooted in Paktika and neighbouring Paktia and Khost provinces.
One of the captured leaders provided insurgent fighters with funding, weapons, supplies and hideouts, and the other coordinated attacks against Afghan forces, the coalition said.
