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May 19, 2010

Taliban Fighters Attack NATO Base; US Toll Passes 1,000
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban has launched one of their boldest assaults
to date with an attack on NATO’s Bagram Air Base earlier today. At least
seven Taliban fighters were killed, and nine NATO troops were wounded.
The Taliban says at least twenty suicide bombers took part in the
overnight attack. The attack came hours after the official US death toll
in Afghanistan passed the 1,000 mark with the killing of five US troops
in a suicide bombing in Kabul.



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