12 Americans and a Canadian killed as Taliban launches suicide attack in Afghanistan

-Four U.S. troops and one Canadian soldier killed together with eight American contractors

-Attack is worst loss of American lives in Afghanistan since helicopter crash which killed 30 U.S. soldiers

-Three Afghan civilians and one policeman also killed

-Taliban claims responsibility in text message to media outlets

-Followed attack in which female suicide bomber blew herself up in strike on government office in Afghanistan

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