Insurgents attack Kandahar Air Field

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Insurgents attack Kandahar Air Field
By Rahim Faiez - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 3, 2010 7:55:48 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan — Six Afghan private security guards were beheaded during a bank robbery in northern Afghanistan, police said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, insurgents launched a ground attack on NATO's largest base in the south, but did not breach its defenses, officials said.

It appeared that the security guards were poisoned before they were beheaded, said Sherjan Durani, a police spokesman for Balkh province. He said someone apparently mixed a poison into the guards' food Monday night at a branch of Kabul Bank in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Durani says an unknown number of robbers beheaded the guards and took about $269,000 in U.S. and Afghan currency.

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No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but it fits the pattern of recent Taliban attacks against high-profile government and military targets.