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Summary Fifteen police and an intelligence agent were killed Saturday in a string of devastating attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar which were claimed by the Taliban.
In what appeared to be an attempt to raid the provincial police headquarters in downtown Kandahar, insurgents detonated a car bomb just outside the building before two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the street, the NATO-led coalition said.A third militant wearing a suicide vest was shot and wounded in a nearby wedding hall before he could detonate his explosives, said Lieutenant Colonel Webster Wright, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). That militant was taken into custody.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, evidence that the insurgency remains a potent force in an area the US military says has seen significant security gains since a NATO offensive to push back insurgents late last year.
