Originally posted by Wikinews. Wikinews content appears under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license except where specified. As these articles are static snapshots of news items that may be later updated, they may not represent the latest or final revision of that article, and posted information may be only preliminary. Afghanistan suicide bomb leaves seven Americans dead ---------------------------------------------------- December 31, 2009 Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Afghanistan_suicide_bomb_leaves_seven_Americans_dead?curid=146853 A suicide bomber attacked an American base in the Khowst region on the Pakistani border of Afghanistan, leaving seven American CIA officers dead and six injured. No American or NATO military personnel were killed or injured in the attack on Forward Operating Base Chapman. It appears that the suicide bomber, reportedly wearing an Afghan National Army uniform, blew himself up in either the gym or the dining facility of Base Chapman. In a statement on the Voice of Jihad web page, the Taliban claimed responsiblity for the attack, alleging 20 "CIA employees" were killed in the incident. The Chapman Base is a converted military base which is now being used for civilian reconstruction operations, although military personnel are still located on the base. Camp Salerno, the main base in the Khowst province, has been the target of many attacks in recent weeks. Recent attacks have been focused on foreign civilians, such as an incident in October in which 7 foreign and 3 Afghani civilians were killed in an attack at a UN guest house. The CIA has not lost this many operatives in nearly 25 years and the last time CIA agents were killed was in 2003. == Related news == * Attack on UN guesthouse by Taliban in Afghanistan kills nine == Sources == * http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-afghan-attack31-2009dec31,0,5154434.story * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6913861/Suicide-bomber-kills-8-US-civilians-in-Afghanistan.html * http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/american-civilians-killed-afghan-suicide-bomber/story?id=9450037 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8436635.stm * http://www.alemarah.info/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=889:twenty-american-cia-staff-killed-in-martyrdom-operation&catid=1:afghanistan&Itemid=2 * http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/world/asia/01afghan.html .