Campaign targets NATO forces, diplomats, contractors and Afghan officials
An Afghan policeman stops a three-wheeler near the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Wednesday. Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and around the capital in as many days.
An Afghan policeman stops a three-wheeler near the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Wednesday. Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and around the capital in as many days.
By ANNE GEARAN
updated 8:15 p.m. CT, Wed., May 19, 2010
WASHINGTON - Brazen Taliban attacks in and around Afghanistan's capital Kabul this week demonstrate the power of the insurgency to strike directly at foreign forces on Afghan soil.
A sobered U.S. military is studying whether these Taliban efforts to reach outside their rural home base are part of a new campaign to target NATO forces, foreign diplomats, contractors and Afghan government officials.
The attacks come as the number of U.S. military deaths approach the 1,000 mark, and at a time when Americans are looking for progress in a long and costly war.
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