The Washington Post, September 30th, 2004
Taliban gunmen crept up to an Afghan government office under cover of darkness early Wednesday and launched a battle that left three Afghan soldiers and four attackers dead, police said. The attack came after an explosion earlier in the week killed a motorcyclist in what an Afghan commander suggested was a botched suicide attack, and U.S. troops skirmished with insurgents near the Pakistani border. Insurgents who include members of the Taliban, the Islamic militia that ruled most of Afghanistan until the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, are trying to derail the country's presidential election, set f...
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