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Attack on Military Outpost

9 US troops, dozens of Taliban killed

Bomb kills 7 Afghan civilians

AFP, Kabul/ Kandahar
Hundreds of militants stormed a remote military outpost in Afghanistan and briefly entered the base in a ferocious attack that left nine US soldiers dead, officials said yesterday.
Dozens of insurgents were also killed in hours of fighting sparked after Sunday's dawn assault on a newly-built Nato and Afghan army post in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar, the
Nato-led force said.
The attack was one of the deadliest involving international forces who arrived in .Afghanistan after a US-led invasion drove the al-Qaeda-linked Taliban from government in late 2001.
Fifteen US soldiers and four Afghan troops were wounded, officials said.
"It was a well-organised attack, it was a ferocious attack. ’ said Captain Mike Finney, a spokesman for the Nato-Jed international Security Assistance Force.
"Ilie troops in the combat outpost fought back hard to make sure the insurgents did not overrun the place."
Hours of fighting, including air strikes, prevented the militants from taking over (he base, with rebel casualties in the "high double figures", said Finney.
Between 400 and 500 militants from various anti-government factions includingTaliban, al-Qaeda and the Hezb-i-lslami faction were involved, a senior Afghan defence ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
"They attacked the newly established base there and reached even its walls. At one point they had entered the base," he said, citing information from the ground.
"I don't know if the soldiers died inside die base or outside but the enemy had reached the walls."
TYoops were able to push them back with ground fighting and attack helicopters.
"Reports we got from the area suggest that about 40 enemy were killed and around the same number of them were wounded." he said.
kafs Finney said between 100 and 150 Afghan and international troops had moved into the outpost, near the village ofWanat, less than a week earlier.
Finney would not give the nationalities of the Isaf troops killed in the attack, but a Western official confirmed on condition of anonymity that tliey were all US nationals.
Americans form the bulk of the nearly 70,000 international troops in Afghanistan to help the fragile government fight back an insurgency led by the hardline Taliban, who were ousted in a US-led invasion in late 2001.
The attack in Kunar, which adjoins Pakistan -- where Afghan officials say insurgents are based, was one of the deadliest incidents for
international forces in Afghanistan in years.
Meanwhile, a roadside bomb tore through a civilian pick-up truck in eastern Afghanistan on Monday killing seven people, a government spokesman said.
"The bomb was perhaps planted to target military vehicles," Pakuka province spokesman Ghamai Khan Mohammadyar told AFP accusing Taliban-linked insurgents of planting the homemade device.
"It struck a civilian car and killed seven people, al) civilians, “ he said.
The blast was the latest attack in a spike of violence in Afghanistan, including an assault on a military outpost Sunday that killed nine US soldiers and wounded 15.
Monday's bomb "was the work of the enemies of our country," Mohammadyar added, in a reference to the Taliban, the group powering an insurgency against the Afghan government and almost 70,000 international trooos based here.