Taliban attacks US base amid signs of worsening security in Afghanistan:--Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked an American military base on Monday morning, shutting down the main route east into neighbouring Pakistan. Several vehicles were destroyed in the assault but Nato officials said the outpost was not breached. It is the latest in a string of bloody attacks, apparently part of an attempt to undermine Afghan forces which have taken over security for the country from international troops. A spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said officers were still assessing the impact of the three-hour assault on a forward operating base in Nangarhar province. “There were three enemy forces killed during the attack,” he said. “We can confirm that no Isaf personnel were killed as a result of this incident.” A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility in a message emailed to news organisations. The attack comes less than a week after Taliban fighters targeted a nearby Polish base and at the end of a blood-stained weekend. On Sunday, the bullet-riddled bodies of seven civilians kidnapped a week ago by the Taliban were found in Ghazni province, just south of the capital Kabul. A day earlier, a roadside bomb killed eight Afghan employees of a private mining company. The workers were travelling in a small truck to the chromite mine in the Bagram district of Parwan province.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:49:44 +0000
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