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November 2, 2011 Special Dispatch No. 4246

Taliban Statement: Kabul Suicide Bombing That Killed U.S. Troops Was Carried Out By 23-year-Old European-Afghan

November 2, 2011
Pakistan | Special Dispatch No. 4246

A statement released by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government in the country) notes that the October 29, 2011 suicide bombing which killed more than a dozen U.S. soldiers in Kabul was carried out by a Kabul-born 23-year-old European-Afghan who had recently returned to Afghanistan. The European country is not named.

Also according to the statement, an Afghan soldier carried out another suicide bombing on the same day, in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. ...

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