4 Americans dead in suicide attack at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan

An Afghan soldier keeps guard at Bagram Airfield

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last updated 12 November 2016

A suicide attack claimed by the Taliban killed four people and injured 17 more Saturday at Bagram Airfield, a large U.S. base central to NATO operations in Afghanistan. The identities of the dead have not been released, nor has the identity of the bomber.

"An explosive device was detonated on Bagram Airfield resulting in multiple casualties. Four people have died in the attack and approximately 14 have been wounded," said a NATO statement. "Response teams at Bagram continue to treat the wounded and investigate the incident." However, an Afghan police official told Al Jazeera "the person who got in with the explosives must be a dual citizen and someone who has an access pass and is trusted to go without escort."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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