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Afghans: Attacker was insurgent KABUL, Afghanistan -- The man who launched a deadly attack from inside Afghanistan's Defense Ministry this week was not a soldier but an insurgent who managed to sneak past the ministry's security, officials said. The Taliban have claimed that the assailant who opened fire in the ministry compound on Monday was an army officer working as a sleeper agent for the insurgency. The attack was the third deadly assault from inside a government or military installation within four days. Taliban reportedly free Iranian hostages KABUL, Afghanistan -- A group of Iranian and Afghan road construction workers kidnapped earlier this week in western Afghanistan has been released, police said Wednesday. The crew of at least 12 Iranians and two Afghans was driving toward its job site in a remote part of Farah province Monday when the men were ambushed and taken hostage. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and threatened to kill the men off one by one unless their company stopped work on the road. Banker: Just 5% of loans repaid KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan has stepped up efforts to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans made by the embattled Kabul Bank, but just 5 percent of the $909 million being sought has been recouped, officials said. The bank -- now under the control of Afghanistan's central bank -- is trying to show accountability to world financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund. The USAID inspector general said in a recent report that it is estimated that "fraudulent loans were used to divert $850 million to insiders."
ISLAMABAD - The top U.S. military officer accused Pakistan's spy agency on Wednesday of links to a powerful militant faction fighting in Afghanistan, and said that relationship was at the "heart" of tensions between Islamabad and Washington.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Accuses Pakistan of Militant Links
The comments by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are a sign that the U.S. is not steppi...
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