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September 12, 2012, Wednesday
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AN attack on a US military base in Afghanistan killed three Afghan intelligence employees and destroyed a NATO helicopter.
Separately, a teenage suicide bomber yesterday walked into a shop in western Afghanistan and blew himself up, killing five people.
The attack on Bagram Air Field, a sprawling American base north of Kabul, occurred around 10pm on Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the base.
"Four rounds hit," coalition spokesman Army Major Adam Wojack said, adding that it was unclear whether rockets or mortars landed on the base. "One of the rounds hit the helicopter and started a fire, which destroyed it."
Both Afghan and coalition forces were inside the Chinook CH47 when it was hit. Wojack said the three Afghans died and an unspecified number of coalition troops were injured in the attacks.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that the rockets fired by the group's fighters killed nine Afghan intelligence workers and four Americans at the base.
In an attack last month on Bagram, an insurgent rocket damaged a top US general's plane that was parked on the tarmac. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for that attack, saying they had fired rockets that landed near the C-17 transport plane, which had flown US Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Bagram.
Dempsey was not hurt in the attack.
Meanwhile, the suicide bombing yesterday in Herat province. targeted Abdul Hakim, a community leader.
"The bomber was around 14 years old," police said. "He went to the shop, shook hands with Hakim and then blew himself up."
Separately, a teenage suicide bomber yesterday walked into a shop in western Afghanistan and blew himself up, killing five people.
The attack on Bagram Air Field, a sprawling American base north of Kabul, occurred around 10pm on Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the base.
"Four rounds hit," coalition spokesman Army Major Adam Wojack said, adding that it was unclear whether rockets or mortars landed on the base. "One of the rounds hit the helicopter and started a fire, which destroyed it."
Both Afghan and coalition forces were inside the Chinook CH47 when it was hit. Wojack said the three Afghans died and an unspecified number of coalition troops were injured in the attacks.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that the rockets fired by the group's fighters killed nine Afghan intelligence workers and four Americans at the base.
In an attack last month on Bagram, an insurgent rocket damaged a top US general's plane that was parked on the tarmac. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for that attack, saying they had fired rockets that landed near the C-17 transport plane, which had flown US Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Bagram.
Dempsey was not hurt in the attack.
Meanwhile, the suicide bombing yesterday in Herat province. targeted Abdul Hakim, a community leader.
"The bomber was around 14 years old," police said. "He went to the shop, shook hands with Hakim and then blew himself up."
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