Massacre At Airport
Man opens fire on U.S. Troops at airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least six, Afghan military official says.
"A 50-year-old man opened fire at armed U.S. Military soldiers inside the airport after an argument between them turned serious," said Col. Baha Dur, chief of the public relations for the Afghan National Army. Ref. CNN
Afghan president says Taliban used child bomber:
President Hamid Karzai is accusing the Taliban of using a 12-year-old as a suicide bomber and sending him to carry out an attack on Sunday that killed a local council member and three other civilians in eastern Afghanistan. Ref. Source 8
Sunday: Taliban renew attacks in Kandahar; death toll hits 25:
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Sunday that the death toll in clashes that broke out a day earlier had risen to 25 -- all but two of them Taliban fighters. The Taliban brushed aside the lopsided toll, instead boasting that the fighting had all but paralyzed the country's second-largest city. Ref. Source 4
Taliban's new tactic: High-profile inside jobs:
A car with the license plate of a high-ranking Afghan general approached the gates of the Defense Ministry in Kabul last month. A special "A" pass also was on its windshield, so guards quickly waved it through. Ref. Source 1
Attacks in Afghanistan kill German, Polish occupation force soldiers :
Two German and Polish soldiers were killed on Thursday in two separate insurgent attacks in northern and eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the country's governments said. Ref. Source 9
Taliban attack police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, killing 2 and abducting 5:
The Sunday attack in Nimroz province also wounded two police officers, said Hashim Noorzai, district governor of Khash Rod. Nimroz is a sparsely populated, arid province near Iran and Pakistan that Taliban fighters and smugglers often use as a staging area. Ref. Source 8