• Four Canadian troops and a journalist also killed
The Guardian
"Eight American civilians who were killed in a suicide attack at a military base in eastern Afghanistan yesterday were CIA agents, US officials confirmed tonight.....
A senior State Department official said all of the victims are civilians. But that could include military contractors and US intelligence officials.....
The attacks rounded off a deadly year for US and Nato forces, by far the most deadly of eight years of war, with the number of US troops killed double last year's toll. This year 508 Nato troops were killed, up from 295 in 2008, according to iCasualties.org, which tracks deaths in Afghanistan......
The Guardian
"Eight American civilians who were killed in a suicide attack at a military base in eastern Afghanistan yesterday were CIA agents, US officials confirmed tonight.....
A senior State Department official said all of the victims are civilians. But that could include military contractors and US intelligence officials.....
The attacks rounded off a deadly year for US and Nato forces, by far the most deadly of eight years of war, with the number of US troops killed double last year's toll. This year 508 Nato troops were killed, up from 295 in 2008, according to iCasualties.org, which tracks deaths in Afghanistan......
Khost province, where the US base is located, is close to the Pakistani border and is a Taliban stronghold......"
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