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January 19, 2010

Taliban Fighters Launch Attack on Kabul
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In Afghanistan, a small team of Taliban fighters launched a coordinated
attack on the capital of Kabul on Monday. In a four-hour battle, the
gunmen targeted the presidential palace, justice ministry, ministry of
mines and a presidential administrative building. Five people were
killed, and seventy were wounded. The attack began just as President
Hamid Karzai was preparing to swear in fourteen members of his cabinet.



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