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Liberty Star
12-30-2009, 08:00 PM
Deadly day in Afghanistan for American civilians and Canadian troops. Elsewhere angry Afghan villagers burnt effigy of Barack Obama:


Obama's War

Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans

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People chant anti-American slogans and burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama in Jalalabad, south Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009., during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by the coalition forces in Kunar province, eight of them boys aged between 12 and 14. A NATO official said initial reports from troops involved in the fighting on Sunday indicated that the victims were insurgents. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (Rahmat Gul - AP)


An Afghan demonstrator weeps, as he chants anti American slogans while the label on his headband reads " Don't kill more" during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by coalition forces in Kunar province on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths in eastern Afghanistan concluded Wednesday that civilians, including schoolchildren, were killed in the attack involving foreign troops, disputing NATO reports that the dead were insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (Musadeq Sadeq - AP)

Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 30, 2009; 6:44 PM

A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday inside an Afghan military base used by the CIA, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war, U.S. officials said.

The bomber managed to slip past security at Forward Operating Base Chapman in the eastern province of Khost before detonating an explosive belt in what one U.S. official described as a room used as a fitness center. The blast also wounded eight people, several of them seriously, U.S. government officials said.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123000201.html


NATO: 5 Canadians killed in blast in Afghanistan

43 mins ago
KABUL – Four soldiers and one journalist from Canada were killed in an explosion Wednesday in Kandahar province, one of the most dangerous areas of southern Afghanistan, NATO said.


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Liberty Star
12-30-2009, 08:08 PM
ISAF has launched investigations after claims made by Afghan President about civilian killings:


ISAF calls for probe into disputed Afghanistan slayings

December 30, 2009 -- Updated 1930 GMT (0330 HKT)

Afghans demonstrate Wednesday against a U.S. operation that the Afghan government says killed civilians.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO's International Security Assistance Force called Wednesday for a joint investigation into a weekend U.S.-led operation, after the Afghan government alleged that 10 civilians were killed.

ISAF said the Saturday operation, in the village of Ghazi Khan in Kunar Province, targeted a known insurgent group that ISAF said is "responsible for a series of violent attacks in the area."

It said, "As the joint assault force entered the village, they came under fire from several buildings and in returning fire killed nine individuals. Several assault rifles, ammunition, and ammonium nitrate used in bomb-making were discovered."

Earlier Wednesday, an Afghan presidential team said that it had confirmed 10 deaths -- all of them civilians and eight of them students -- from the operation.

Asadullah Wafa, a senior advisor to President Hamid Karzai, said he talked to village elders, family members of the victims and the principal of a school in the area.

The victims included eight middle school and high school students, he said.


http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/afghan.deaths/

Liberty Star
12-31-2009, 03:42 PM
Latest update from AP on this deadly attack:

YouTube - AP Sources: CIA Base Chief Killed in Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLeDkRHNPk)


AP sources: Suicide bomber invited on base

By PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Writers Pamela Hess And Adam Goldman, Associated Press Writers – 22 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and wounded six more at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials have told The Associated Press.

A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp.

The official says a senior and experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting that the purpose of the meeting was to gain intelligence.

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