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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search ADVERTISEMENT Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap Petraeus arrives in Afghanistan as Taliban attack kills five AFP - Saturday, July 3 Send IM Story Print Petraeus arrives in Afghanistan as Taliban attack kills five Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: War On Terror KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AFP) - – Three foreigners were among five killed when Taliban militants stormed a US aid organisation in Afghanistan Friday, as General David Petraeus arrived in Kabul as the new war commander. Another 20 people were wounded in the pre-dawn attack on the compound of aid contractor Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) by a militant gang which included at least two who blew themselves up, President Hamid Karzai said. "In total three foreigners have been killed. One Briton, one Filipino and one German. Two Afghans have also been killed -- a guard and one policeman," Kunduz governor Mohammad Omar told AFP. The German citizen killed in the attack was a security guard, said a US embassy official. NATO said seven other foreigners were injured, while the British embassy in Kabul confirmed one of its citizens was also injured. The attack in the northern city of Kunduz was "the work of the foreign mercenaries who do not want the people of Afghanistan to achieve a better life", Karzai said in a statement. It took place just hours before Petraeus arrived in Kabul as the commander of 140,000 US and NATO troops in Afghanistan fighting the escalating Taliban-led insurgency. "General Petraeus arrived in Kabul by plane at 6.30 pm (1400 GMT) and took a helicopter to ISAF headquarters," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, referring to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). He is expected to make his public debut in Kabul on Saturday, when he attends celebrations at the US embassy marking the Fourth of July as US independence day. As he arrived, the US embassy issued a statement condemning the Kunduz attack as "cowardice". "This is another tragic reminder of the life threatening-circumstances that our Afghan and international partners face every day as they work side-by-side with the Afghan government and its people to improve conditions in the country for a better future," it said. Karzai said six "terrorists" were involved, adding the attack "aims to prevent the reconstruction and economic development of Afghanistan". Police said the fighting, which lasted about seven hours, ended around 11:00 am (0630 GMT) after the final two militants inside the building were killed. "We managed to kill the remaining opposition and police got into the building," said Yaqobi. Smoke billowed from the building, which was surrounded by NATO and Afghan troops after the ambush. "The first suicide attacker detonated at the entrance, the second detonated inside the premises, killing one foreign national," Kunduz governor Omar said. German and US troops are based in Kunduz under NATO's operations to quell a Taliban insurgency which has been intensifying during the nearly nine-year conflict. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Northern Afghanistan has largely escaped the violence that blights the south, mainly because the population is dominated by Tajiks and Uzbeks, rather than the Pashtuns who make up the bulk of the Taliban. In the past year, however, violence in the region has escalated as the Taliban converge on roads that bring supplies from Central Asia to military bases in Afghanistan. DAI is a so-called "implementing partner" of Washington's international aid arm USAID. It is believed to have opened its Kunduz operation about four months ago. Such contractors are playing an increasingly important role in Afghanistan, using billions of dollars in aid pouring into the impoverished country in an effort to rebuild after 30 years of war. The Taliban are stepping up attacks on foreign targets in response to intensified efforts by the US and NATO to rout the militants. Friday's attack came just days after Taliban gunmen attacked a major NATO base in the eastern city of Jalalabad, setting off a car bomb and firing rockets. US aid contractors have been attacked across Afghanistan in recent months, hampering their efforts to recruit foreign staff as part of the "civilian surge" to speed development. NATO said Friday that two of its soldiers had been killed in insurgent attacks, one in eastern Afghanistan, the other in the south, bringing the death toll so far this year to 325. 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