Seven Killed in Gunbattle in Afghanistan

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AMIR SHAH
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban militants crept up to an Afghan government office under cover of darkness early Wednesday and launched a gunbattle that left four attackers and three Afghan troops dead, police said.

Elsewhere, an explosion killed a motorcyclist in what an Afghan commander suggested was a botched suicide attack, and U.S. troops skirmished with insurgents near the Pakistani border.

The violence comes in the run-up to Afghanistan's Oct. 9 presidential election, which insurgents are trying to derail.

The mayor's office in Khaki Afghan, a district of southeastern Zabul province, was targeted Wednesday by rebels armed with machine guns and rifles, deputy police chief Jailani Khan said.

In four hours of fighting, four Taliban were killed and two more captured along with their weapons, Khan said. Three Afghan soldiers died and two were wounded.

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[KC21304]

1. This can't be true. Bush got rid of the Taliban.

There were not 4 Taliban alive to be killed. I know because Bush and Cheney told me.