The Taliban suicide car bomb attack on Dec. 17 against a compound in Kabul owned by Contrack International has devastated local businesses. Afghan traders reportedly lost $10 million in damages from the attack.
Security forces killed a Taliban commander in Herat. Nuristan’s chief of police accused the Pakistani military of attacking police centers in conjunction with the Taliban.
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A Taliban suicide bomber killed one person in an attack on a US contractors base in Kabul. Ten Afghan girls were killed in a landmine blast in Nangarhar.
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Contrack International, the target of the attack, supports US military operations in Afghanistan.
Security forces captured a Taliban facilitator involved in the Dec. 2 attack on the US airbase in Jalalabad. The Afghan military claimed that 23 Taliban fighters were killed during operations over the past two days.
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President Karzai said US and NATO troops should withdraw from Afghan villages as soon as possible. Security forces detained three Taliban commanders and 50 fighters in Nangarhar, and a senior Taliban commander and several fighters in Sar-i-Pul.
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Security forces killed a Taliban commander and several fighters in Baghlan, and detained six suicide bombers, including three Pakistanis, in Paktika. President Karzai said the suicide attack that wounded the NDS chief was plotted in Quetta, and the government will provide evidence to prove it.
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The police chief in Nimroz and the acting head of women’s affairs for Laghman were assassinated in separate attacks. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. A US Navy SEAL was killed in the Dec. 8 raid in Kabul that freed a kidnapped US doctor.
An al Qaeda leader known as Numan was killed during a raid in the Nari district on Dec. 4. Numan supported senior “insurgent leaders” and moved weapons and fighters into the province.
ISAF killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike in Helmand. A US soldier died in eastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghans angry over the execution of countrymen in Iran attacked the Iranian consulate in Herat.