Afghan police reported that three members of an elite strike force have been killed in an overnight attack by militants resisting the occupation of their country by Western forces and the ties between these forces and the Afghan government. The police chief of eastern Afghanistan’s Paktia province, Azizudin Wardak, said insurgents launched an attack on a police post on the outskirts the provincial capital. When a rapid-response police force rushed to aid the fight, the militants detonated a roadside bomb, killing three officers including the force’s commander.