{"id":2940,"date":"2009-12-31T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2009-12-31T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:37:22","slug":"taliban-claims-responsibility-for-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/taliban-claims-responsibility-for-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claims responsibility for bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/taliban1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2941\" title=\"Taliban\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/taliban1-280x175.jpg\" alt=\"Taliban\" width=\"280\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/taliban1-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/taliban1.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing Wednesday that killed eight Americans believed to be CIA employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the attack in Khost province was carried out by a bomber wearing an explosives-laden vest. He, however, said that 13 U.S. soldiers were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a senior U.S. official said information suggested a bomber walked into a gym facility at Forward Operating Base Chapman and detonated a suicide vest. It&#8217;s not known how the bomber got past security.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the eight deaths, the blast wounded six Americans, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. military source said that FOB Chapman was originally a base for the Khost Provincial Construction Team, but the team left some time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe that perhaps the suicide bomber attacked just after a convoy was ending or beginning, which would account for high number of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Also Wednesday, five Canadians (four soldiers and a journalist) were killed when a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle in southern Afghanistan, Canada&#8217;s defense ministry said.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing Wednesday that killed eight Americans believed to be CIA employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118],"tags":[3897,3895,649,256,3893],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","tag-khost-provincial-construction","tag-khost-provincial-construction-team","tag-pakistan-taliban","tag-taliban","tag-zabiullah-mujahid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}