Taliban Infiltrate NATO-Afghan Meeting in North, Kill Afghan Police Generals
30 May 2011
A suicide bomber struck a security gathering in Afghanistan's north on Saturday, injuring a provincial governor and the German commander of foreign troops in the region, and killing at least six people — including two senior Afghan police commanders and two German soldiers, Afghan and coalition officials said. [...] NATO's International Security Assistance Force confirmed that two Western soldiers were killed in the attack, and German media,...
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NATO Issues Apology after Air Strike Kills Civilians in SW
30 May 2011
International forces in Afghanistan were caught in a new row over civilian casualties on Sunday after reports that 14 civilians, including up to 12 children, had been killed in a coalition air strike in the southern province of Helmand. Afghan TV showed images of casualties being taken into hospitals and bereaved relatives cradling the bodies of several young children wrapped in bloody sheets. The exact number of casualties in the incident, which...
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Taliban Suicide Bombers Strike Italian Base in "Peaceful" Herat
30 May 2011
Taliban insurgents led by suicide bombers attacked an Italian military base and set off another explosion in western Afghanistan on Monday, killing four people and wounding dozens, officials said. The Italian-run base was the main target of the assault, which lasted several hours, Afghan and Italian officials said, but the Taliban said a second bomb intended for the NATO facility had gone off prematurely in the center of Herat. The attacks were especially...
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bin Laden Tried to Establish "Grand Coalition" of Militant Groups
30 May 2011
Osama bin Laden spent much of his last weeks alive planning a new attempt to bring the disparate factions among insurgents and militants fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan together under the umbrella of al-Qaida. The terrorist leader, who had made repeated efforts to unify militant groups, was even considering risking leaving his safe house in Abbottabad, the northern Pakistani garrison town, to try to build a fresh alliance through face-to-face...
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