Posted on 08/19/2011 4:11:39 AM PDT by nuconvert
NATO forces backed by helicopters were battling Friday with insurgents who killed at least 10 people, including a foreign soldier, in an assault on a British cultural center in the Afghan capital.
At least five blasts, claimed by the Taliban, rocked the British Council offices in Kabul from the early hours of the morning, during a public holiday marking Afghanistan's independence from Britain in 1919.
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One soldier said he thought that the Britons inside the compound took refuge in a safe room, The (London) Times reported.
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Yet another attack. Prayers for the British. My husband’s over there and he says that he enjoys talking to the Brits and giving them a hard time. When will this ever end?
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