14 NATO Occupation Soldiers Killed in Taliban Afghan Attack

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Official: 13 American troops killed in Kabul attack A Taliban car bomber exploded his car in a US-run NATO convoy, killing at least 14 people including foreign occupation forces. At least ten foreign forces, three civilians and a policeman were among the casualties. The attacker detonated his Toyota Sedan car at 11:20 am (0650 GMT) in the southwest of the city, and the area was now blocked by Afghan and international forces, said police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai. "The attack targeted an American NATO bus," said a Western military official on condition of anonymity. "There are 10 or 11 people, mostly Americans," he said, giving the death toll. Spokesman for the interior ministry Siddiq Siddiqui said that three civilians and a policeman had also been killed but he had no information on foreign forces. "It was a huge explosion, I saw at least ten bodies of foreign forces taken out of their capsized bus and evacuated by two helicopters," one witness told AFP news agency at the scene. A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the force could not give further details until further information had been gathered. For its part, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. "A suicide car bomb attack was carried out on a bus of foreign forces in the Dar-ul-Aman area of Kabul," said Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a text message sent to AFP.

Source: AFP Afghan Man in Army Uniform Kills 2 Foreign Occupation Troops Local Editor Two foreign troops were killed when a man dressed in Afghan army uniform shot them dead in southern Afghanistan. "Two International Security Assistance Force service members were killed today in southern Afghanistan when an individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform apparently turned his weapon on Afghan and coalition forces," the alliance force said in a statement. It said the shooter was also killed in the incident but gave no further details. The announcement came as a suicide car bomber in the capital Kabul struck a US-run NATO bus.