Taliban attack on restaurant in Afghan capital kills at least 21 --- KABUL — At least 21 people, including two Americans, were killed Friday evening in a commando-style attack by Taliban insurgents on a popular Lebanese restaurant in the Afghan capital, local officials said Saturday. -- The attack, one of the deadliest in Kabul in years, began when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the restaurant gate just after 7 p.m. Friday, according to the Interior Ministry. Gunmen then entered and started shooting in the busy dining room. -- After a sporadic exchange of gunfire that lasted nearly two hours, security forces said they had shot dead the two attackers inside. -- “The U.S. Embassy has confirmed that at least two private U.S. citizens were among the victims of last night’s terrorist attack in Kabul,” officials said in a tweet on Saturday. - More, Washingtonpost, at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/taliban-attack-on-restaurant-in-afghan-capital-kills-at-least-21/2014/01/18/1bf1e292-8027-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html?hpid=z4