Saturday, August 20, 2011

TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN 'UNTIL 2024'

America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.


Mr Sediqqi said a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives outside the British Council in the western part of the city.

A second bomber penetrated inside the complex and set off an explosives vest.

The blasts set off a five-hour-long gunbattle between Afghan security forces and an unknown number of insurgents inside the compound.

Sediqqi told reporters that troops were hunting for one of the attackers believed to be hiding in the compound.

British troops deployed to the scene were also seen entering a house where the attacker was believed to be hiding.

A spokesman for the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

The dead included eight Afghan policemen, a security guard whose nationality was not immediately known and an Afghan municipal worker, according to Kabul police official.

In London, the British Foreign Office confirmed that all UK nationals were safe following the attack.

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