Taliban attack on guesthouse kills 6 UN workers
A United Nations spokesman in Afghanistan says militants have killed at least six UN workers and wounded nine others.
Wednesday, 28.10.2009.
09:23
A United Nations spokesman in Afghanistan says militants have killed at least six UN workers and wounded nine others. Many of the victims of an attack on an international guesthouse in the capital, Kabul are believed to be foreigners, VOA reports. Taliban attack on guesthouse kills 6 UN workers Local police said at least three gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the compound before dawn Wednesday. They fought pitched battles with security forces for two hours before they either detonated their explosives or were shot dead. A Taliban spokesman later took credit for the attack, calling it a "first step" to disrupt next month's presidential runoff election. The raid targeted a guest house popular with foreign UN workers in an affluent part of the city that includes residential homes, shops and government buildings. On Tuesday, eight U.S. soldiers and an Afghan civilian working with them were killed in a series of bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan. The deaths made October the deadliest month for American forces since a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban government in late 2001. Also Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Friday with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to continue the assessment on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Gibbs said the president is approaching the end of the review process and will take some time to think things through.
Taliban attack on guesthouse kills 6 UN workers
Local police said at least three gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the compound before dawn Wednesday. They fought pitched battles with security forces for two hours before they either detonated their explosives or were shot dead.A Taliban spokesman later took credit for the attack, calling it a "first step" to disrupt next month's presidential runoff election.
The raid targeted a guest house popular with foreign UN workers in an affluent part of the city that includes residential homes, shops and government buildings.
On Tuesday, eight U.S. soldiers and an Afghan civilian working with them were killed in a series of bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.
The deaths made October the deadliest month for American forces since a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban government in late 2001.
Also Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Friday with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to continue the assessment on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gibbs said the president is approaching the end of the review process and will take some time to think things through.
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