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ment would be an academic dispute to most voters, Boehner on Thursday injected a human element into the battle over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. He said the family of slain border agent Brian Terry deserved answers about the guns that killed him.
• Two guns that were allowed to "walk" from Arizona to Mexico in the failed effort to track weapons were found near Terry after he was killed.
• "The Terry family deserves answers about why their son was killed as a result of an operation run by the United States government," Boehner told his weekly news conference.
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• KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Heavily armed Taliban insurgents killed 17 people -- most of them civilians -- in an attack Friday on a lakeside hotel just north of Kabul, Afghan officials said.
• Insurgents battled Afghan security forces for about 12 hours while they held hotel guests hostage inside the hotel. Kabul police said the fifth and final attacker was killed at midday Friday, ending the standoff.
• It was the latest in a string of attacks this week that suggest the insurgent group is pushing hard with its summer offensive rather than waiting for international forces to draw down. The strike at the hotel, about a half-hour drive from the capital, was a reminder that the Taliban can still hit very close to the seat of the Afghan govern

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• Twelve Afghan civilians, four security guards and an Afghan police officer died in the attack, said Gen. Kadam Shah Shayem, the Afghan National Army commander for Kabul.
• Kabul Police Chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi said five attackers -- armed with machines guns, rocket-propelled grenades and vests laden with explosives -- stormed the Spozhmai hotel at Qargha Lake before midnight on Thursday. By midmorning Friday, militants were still fighting Afghan forces, supported by international troops. Gunfire pierced the quiet surroundings of the lake area. Black smoke was rising from the two-story hotel in a wooded area on the bank of the lake. NATO helicopters circled overhead.
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