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Roadside bomb kills 9 Afghanistan
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
AP via USA Today - Mar 12, 2007
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-12-afghan-bombing_N.htm
Roadside bomb kills 9 police in western Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy
killed nine officers, including a local commander, and left one
critically wounded Monday in western Afghanistan, officials said.
Separately, the Afghan parliamentary speaker said the Taliban had
threatened to kill an Italian journalist abducted in the country's
lawless south unless the Italian government reviewed its policy toward
Afghanistan.
The attack on the police convoy occurred in Farah province's Bakwa
district, which was briefly taken over by Taliban militants last month.
Western Afghanistan has been spared much of the violence rocking the
south and east, but the area lies on a major heroin smuggling route
into Iran.
The Bakwa district police commander was among the nine killed, said
provincial police spokesman Baryalai Khan. One of the three vehicles in
the convoy was destroyed, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemerai
Bashary.
Elsewhere in the same province, Taliban insurgents attacked a police
post Sunday near the border with Iran, and the ensuing clash left two
militants dead and one wounded, Bashary said.
The area around Bakwa also neighbors the volatile southern province of
Helmand, where NATO last week launched its largest offensive yet, aimed
at winning over a population long supportive of militant fighters.
In Helmand, U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops targeting an alleged
anti-aircraft weapons trafficker clashed with suspected Taliban
insurgents Monday in Gereshk district, killing two militants and
lightly wounding two Afghan troops and one coalition soldier, the
coalition said.
A local leader in Gereshk, Adil Khan, said the assault killed five
civilians and wounded four others, including three children. The
coalition said there were "no reported civilian casualties."
In neighboring Kandahar province, Afghan troops arrested a
"high-ranking suicide attack coordinator" in Panjwayi district, NATO's
International Security Assistance Force said Monday.
Near-daily suicide bombings and insurgent attacks plague the lawless
southern region, a former Taliban stronghold where the government
wields little power.
Italy's government, meanwhile, said it has been in contact with the
kidnappers of an Italian reporter in Afghanistan and had reason to
believe he was alive.
Taliban insurgents claim they kidnapped Daniele Mastrogiacomo, a
reporter with Italian daily La Repubblica, last week along with two
Afghans who were traveling with him in Helmand.
Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said Italian officials have made
contact with the kidnappers mainly "through humanitarian channels." He
stressed Rome was not negotiating but trying to "create conditions to
agree on a release."
Afghan parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni said Monday that he had been
told by Afghan diplomats that the Taliban had threatened to kill
Mastrogiacomo unless the Italian government reviewed its policy toward
Afghanistan.
Italy contributes some 1,800 troops to the NATO mission, and Premier
Romano Prodi reiterated Sunday that the commitment would remain
unchanged.
Qanooni, speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels, also appealed for
Pakistan to crack down on insurgents in the rugged border between the
two countries.
"Afghans expect their neighbors, especially Pakistan to stop supporting
terrorist activities and terrorist training camps and stop these people
from infiltrating into the country," he said.
Although Pakistan has deployed 80,000 troops along the border, Afghan
officials have frequently complained that their neighbor has not done
enough to control Taliban insurgents.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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