KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 14, 2010, SPA -- A car bomb and gunfight outside the headquarters of an elite police force killed three U.S. troops and five Afghan civilians in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said Wednesday. An Afghan police officer also died in the late Tuesday night attack on the compound, which houses the elite Afghan National Civil Order Police, a provincial spokesman said. The Taliban claimed responsibility, the Associated Press reported. --SPA 14:26 LOCAL TIME 11:26 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/801847