Friday, 9 January 2009Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in southern Afghanistan that was claimed by the Taliban, NATO has said.
The attack happened on January 8 beside a busy market in Maywand district, Kandahar Province, about 400 kilometers southwest of Kabul.
A district police chief told Reuters that three civilians were also killed, while NATO identified one dead civilian.
Kandahar, which is a Taliban stronghold, is the headquarters of NATO-led operations in southern Afghanistan, where more than 18,000 mainly Canadian, British, and Dutch troops are locked in a fierce battle against insurgents.
The Taliban posted a statement on its website claiming a local Kandahar man, Hafiz Muhammad, carried out the attack.
In a separate incident, U.S. military forces killed two militants and detained three suspected militants during an operation to target a bomb-making cell in the southeastern Zabul Province, which borders Kandahar.
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Friday, 9 January 2009
RFE/RL
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