Nice to know that the
war Obama wanted to fight is still going well.
Nine
suicide bombers struck an American airfield in the eastern Afghan city of
Jalalabad early on Sunday, killing five people and wounding 18, a local
official told NBC News.
Two
civilians and three members of Afghanistan's special forces were killed in the
attack, Hazart Hussain Sharqiwal, spokesman for the Jalalabad police chief,
told NBC News. Fourteen Afghan soldiers and four civilians were wounded, he
said.
One attacker
detonated his car bomb to help other attackers get inside the base, Sharqiwal
said.
None of the
insurgents breached the perimeter of the base, U.S. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton,
a spokesman for NATO in Kabul, told NBC News. He said there were no reports of
fatalities among members of the ISAF but some were wounded.
Local police
officials earlier told Reuters that a dozen bodies in Afghan police and
military uniforms were scattered around an entrance to the base. It was not
clear whether the dead were Afghan security forces or militants dressed in
uniforms, a tactic the Taliban sometimes deploy during attacks.
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