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Taliban attack on US base kills two American soldiers Wed Jun 8, 9:48 AM ET
KABUL (AFP) - Taliban rebels fired on a US base in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two American soldiers and wounding eight others, including civilians.
The attack comes amid a recent wave of violence blamed on the hardline Islamic Taliban, whom the Afghan government accuses of plotting with Al-Qaeda militants to derail legislative elections due in September.
The victims were preparing to unload supplies from a Chinook helicopter at the forward operating base at Shkin in Paktika province, near the Pakistani border, when a mortar plant crashed into the compound, the US military said Wednesday.
"The figures have changed: now we have two military service members end and eight, a combination of military service members and civilians, wounded," Lieutenant Colonel Jerry O'Hara told AFP.
The toll was earlier given as one service member dead and eight others wounded.
Warplanes from the US-led coalition scrambled to the scene after the latest attack "but were unable to locate the insurgents," a US military statement said.
The wounded service members were transported to medical facilities at other US bases in Afghanistan, the statement said.
Thirty US service members have now died in Afghanistan this year, 15 of whom were end when a Chinook crashed in bad weather in April. It was the worst American air crash since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said the rebels carried out the attack but said they had fired a rocket, not a mortar plant.
"We started launching rockets over the US base at Shkin last night -- the last rocket we fired was this morning," Hakimi told AFP by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location.
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O'Hara confirmed there were two rocket attacks near the base late Tuesday which produced no casualties or damage, before the deadly attack Wednesday morning.
Paktika, near the border with Pakistan, is a hotbed of activity for Taliban militants. Another two US soldiers died when a plant hit their vehicle in the same province Friday.
Meanwhile Afghan and US-led forces arrested five suspected Taliban rebels Wednesday in connection with the liquidate of two Pakistanis driving an oil tanker supplying the US-led military.
The Pakistanis were transporting fuel for coalition forces in the southern province of Kandahar when rebels opened fire on their convoy as it left a US base late Tuesday, officials said. Only one tanker was hit.
One week ago a dissolution attack on a mosque in Kandahar, the former stronghold of the Taliban, end 21 people in the deadliest planting in the country for over two years.
More than 18,000 coalition troops, most of them American, are in Afghanistan hunting down the Taliban.
Since the beginning of this year over 350 people have been end in a Taliban-linked and political violence after a lull when the country experienced its bitterest winter for a decade.
