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June 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The incident occurred on Friday when a Taliban militant rammed an explosive-laden car into the NATO base, known as Firebase Salerno, near the city of Khost.
Firebase Salerno is a forward operating base on the northern outskirts of the eastern city of Khost, and has been the target of frequent rocket and mortar attacks in recent years.
Afghan security officials initially said seven civilians working at a construction site at the base were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in the attack, AFP reported.
Khost provincial police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazai, however, said only three attackers were killed as they stormed the base.
“Four civilians were injured when the roof of a nearby house collapsed as a result of the explosion,” Zazai added, noting that the bodies of the assailants had also been recovered.
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), however, put the militants’ mortalities at 14, while it later confirmed the death of one Afghan civilian.
The Western military alliance insisted none of its personnel was killed in the attack.
But Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Muhahid claimed that a “large number” of US-led soldiers were killed.
“One of our mujahideen rammed a vehicle packed with ten tons of explosives into a NATO base in Khost city and detonated the truck near the restaurant of the base,” he stated.
The US-led forces in Afghanistan are experiencing more casualties in a surge of violence which has followed the launch of the Taliban’s spring offensive.
The so-called spring offensive refers to an annual hike in Taliban-linked violence, which sees a drop in the winter due to the scathing cold and heavy snowfall in the country’s rugged mountains where the militants are holed up.
Earlier in the year, the Taliban announced the start of the offensive, saying the campaign code-named al-Farouq will primarily target “foreign invaders, their advisors, their contractors, all those who help them militarily and in intelligence.”
More than 170 foreign troops have been killed in the war-ravaged country so far this year.
MRS/MA
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