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20 dead as US, Afghans battle suicide bombers
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 05 - 2009


Eleven Taliban suicide bombers struck
government buildings Tuesday in a bold, daylong assault in
eastern Afghanistan, sparking running gunbattles with U.S.
and Afghan forces that killed 20 people and wounded three
Americans, officials said according to The Associated Press.
Troops freed 20 hostages taken by insurgents.
The battle in Khost, a border city that houses a major
American base, came as the U.S. made leadership changes
that demonstrate a clear break from Bush-era appointees,
with President Barack Obama taking charge of an
increasingly bloody eight-year war that the Pentagon once
believed had been won.
New U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, a former three-star
general, presented his credentials to President Hamid
Karzai in the capital. On Monday, the war's top U.S.
commander, Gen. David McKiernan, was replaced by Lt. Gen.
Stanley McChrystal, who has been a leader of special
forces.
Tuesday's assault began around 10 a.m., when a suicide
bomber in a burqa attacked the governor's compound in
Khost. That was followed by a suicide car bombing, said
Wazir Pacha, the spokesman for the provincial police chief.
Khost residents hid from explosions and gunbattles that
lasted until 5 p.m. Twenty people were taken hostage. At
least 11 insurgents and nine other people _ including
police and civilians _ died, the Defense Ministry said.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed that 30
suicide bombers had attacked the government buildings.
Teams of Taliban militants have launched multipronged
assaults on government centers in Kabul, Kandahar and
Helmand's capital in the last year, demonstrating an
increasing sophistication in their attacks. Military
analysts have said such attacks are a result of training by
Pakistani militants and al-Qaida fighters.
After the first explosions Tuesday, U.S. forces attending
a nearby meeting responded to the attacks and killed an
unknown number of militants, said Lt. Cmdr. Christine
Sidenstricker, a U.S. military spokeswoman.


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