Taliban suicide attack kills 17 in Afghan capital
October 8, 2009 by RAHIM FAIEZ
KABUL – A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the busy center of Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding nearly 80 in the second major attack in the city in less than a month.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the 8:30 a.m. assault and said the embassy was the target.
The blast occurred a day after the Afghanistan war reached its eighth anniversary and as President Barack Obama considered a request for between 10,000 and 40,000 additional troops prepared by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.