TALIBAN ATTACK NATO BASE IN AFGHANISTAN

30.06.2010 [15:55]
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Baku, June 30 (AZERTAC). Insurgents have attacked NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan.

Several attackers were killed in the Taliban attack on a base at an airfield outside Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan.

Gunmen set off a car bomb and fired rocket-propelled grenades, and wounding two soldiers, NATO said.

The attack came a day after US Gen David Petraeus warned of an “industrial strength insurgency” in the country.

Gen Petraeus, who is set to take over command of the US military in Afghanistan, also warned that fighting “may get more intense in the next few months”.

He is expected to take up his post as NATO commander in Afghanistan following the dramatic departure of Gen Stanley McChrystal last week.

TALIBAN ATTACK NATO BASE IN AFGHANISTAN

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