Tuesday, September 13, 2011

77 Americans wounded in Afghan truck bombing (AP)

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In this June 16, 2010 handout photo provided by the U.S. Army, a general view of a rainbow after a good rain shower at Combat Outpost Sayed Abad, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and two Afghan civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting the American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the United States. The blast, which occurred late Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, shaved the facades from shops outside the Combat Outpost Sayed Abad in Wardak province and broke windows in government offices nearby, said Roshana Wardak, a former parliamentarian who runs a clinic in the nearby town of the same name. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP Photo/Sean McKenna/U.S. Army,HO)AP - Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and five Afghans civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the United States.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110911/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

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