Taliban Multiple Suicide Bomber Attack

Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:40:42 am PDT

Following the resignation of Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, Taliban terrorists launched coordinated attacks with multiple suicide bombers on US and French forces: Taliban Forces Kill 10 French Soldiers and Raid U.S. Base.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting, one a complex attack with multiple suicide bombers on an American military base on Monday night, and another by some 100 insurgents on French forces in a district east of the capital, killing 10 French soldiers and wounding 21 others, military officials said Tuesday.

Three American soldiers were wounded and six members of the Afghan special forces in the attack on the base in the eastern province of Khost, bordering Pakistan, the Afghan military spokesman, Gen. Zaher Azimi, said. The battle lasted all night, 10 suicide bombers were killed or blew themselves up, and the insurgents were repulsed without entering the base, he said.