Taliban Suicide Car Bomb Attack Kills 13 American Troops in Kabul, Afghanistan – Video Report 10/29/11

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Reports out of Afghanistan indicate 13 American Troops have been killed by a car bomb attack in Kabul. A Senior U.S. Official said a suicide car bomb attack hit a U.S. convoy. The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack.

MSNBC: A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday in Kabul, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months.

The explosion, which occurred as the convoy was passing the American University, sparked a fireball and littered the street with shrapnel. Heavy black smoke poured from burning wreckage at the site.

The armored personnel carrier, known as a Rhino, was sandwiched between of a convoy of mine-resistant military vehicles traveling on a four-lane highway frequently used by NATO forces in a southwestern section of the city.

Pentagon spokesman Jim Gregory confirmed to Reuters the 13 service members killed were Americans.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior said three Afghan civilians and one policeman also died in the attack. Eight other Afghans, including two children and four other civilians, were wounded, said Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul hospitals.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack, as well as for another suicide bombing outside a government intelligence office in the northwest province of Kunar. . . . Read More