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Taliban attacks kill 12 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan
KABUL — A string of bomb, rocket and gun attacks across southern Afghanistan have killed 12 NATO troops in just two days, officials said Wednesday, throwing the spotlight on the spiralling…
KABUL — A string of bomb, rocket and gun attacks across southern Afghanistan have killed 12 NATO troops in just two days, officials said Wednesday, throwing the spotlight on the spiralling cost of the war.The brazen assaults included the killing of three British troops by a rogue Afghan soldier, an incident that has underscored concerns over efforts to build up the local army, a cornerstone of the US-led war strategy.Among the 12 dead, four were British troops and eight American."We're in the toughest part of this fight," ISAF spokesman, German army general Josef Blotz, told reporters.Four US soldiers were killed in a Taliban-style bombing and a fifth by small-arms fire in the volatile south on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.Late Tuesday, Taliban insurgents had set off a car bomb, then fired rockets and small arms into a police base in the southern province of Kandahar, killing three US soldiers and five Afghan civilians.Afghan police backed by international forces fought back "and prevented insurgents from penetrating the compound perimeter," ISAF said.Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the Kandahar government, told AFP the car bomb was set off by a suicide bomber, adding that several other insurgents attacked the base with rockets and machine-gun fire for more than 20 minutes.The interior ministry said another nine civilians were killed in the neighbouring province of Helmand on Tuesday when the minivan they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb -- the Taliban's weapon of choice.Insurgents had killed more than 160 Afghan civilians since June 1, Blotz said.At least 365 NATO soldiers have also died in the conflict so far this year, compared with 521 for all of 2009.On Tuesday, a renegade soldier killed three members of a British Gurkha battalion on a base in Helmand, one of the most violent parts of the country.President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan army chief have vowed a full investigation into the shooting.Britain, the main US ally in the war against
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