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| Taliban attack on Nato base in Afghanistan kills two |
| 2012-05-19 |
| [Dawn] A Taliban rocket attack on a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... base in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar killed two international soldiers and maimed six, officials said. It came a day after gunnies dressed in Afghan police uniforms and wearing boom jackets stormed a government compound in the southwestern province of Farah, killing seven people and wounding 12 others. The Taliban this month announced the start of their annual spring offensive, a campaign of bombings and attacks that picks up every year as the weather warms. A local front man for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said of the latest incident: "Two Isaf soldiers were killed and six others injured in a Taliban rocket attack on an Isaf base in Nari district today." Two other local officials confirmed the account, while the Isaf press office in Kabul said that "two service members died following an cut-thoat attack in eastern Afghanistan". It gave no further details and did not reveal the nationalities of the dead soldiers, in line with policy. |
| Posted by:Fred |