KABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan In Kabul, "Taliban Tuesdays" are becoming a grim joke. For the fourth consecutive week, suicide attackers picked Tuesday to strike inside the Afghan capital, this time hitting a logistics company compound on the east side of Kabul with a truck bomb so big that it shattered windows a quarter of a mile away. Five security guards and two truck drivers waiting to enter the company’s compound were killed, said Kabul Police Chief Gen. Ayub Salangi. All five attackers were also killed, one in the initial blast and the others in a gun battle with security guards and police. The timing of the attack in the early morning hours of Tuesday fit a...
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