3 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan bomb attack

[June 04, 2009]  KABUL (AP) -- Insurgents killed three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan on Thursday in a bomb and small-arms attack on their vehicle, the military said.

Taliban militants are behind a wave of attacks that are destabilizing Afghanistan eight years after their regime was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion. President Barack Obama's administration has ordered 21,000 new U.S. troops to join the fight this year.

Thursday's attack took place in Kapisa, a province just north of the capital of Kabul and the site of Bagram, the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement. Another soldier was injured, but the nationality was not released.

Kapisa is considered a stronghold of insurgents loyal to Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

It was the third attack in less than a week near the Bagram base.

On Tuesday, a family of six Afghans was killed in suicide attack in Parwan district, while on Saturday three U.S. soldiers died in a suicide attack in Kapisa.

[Associated Press]

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