Two Afghan Generals Killed, one Nato General wounded in North Afghanistan

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2 Afghan Police Commanders die in bombing, one NATO General serious injured.

Updated: May 28, 2011 8:18 PM
By JON GAMBRELL AND RAHIM FAIEZ. The Associated Press

KABUL -- A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound Saturday as top Afghan and international officials left a meeting, killing two senior Afghan police commanders and wounding the German general who commands coalition troops in northern Afghanistan.

Two German soldiers and two other Afghans were also killed in the blast, the latest in...

2 Afghan police commanders die in bombing

 

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Senior Afghan police officials killed in Takhar’s attack

TAKHAR: Seven people including two top Afghan police officials were killed in a suicide attack in northern Takhar province on Saturday, an Afghan channel reported.

Local official said that Gen. Dawood Dawood, commander of 303rd Pamir Zone in northern Afghanistan and police chief of Takhar province were killed in the attack. The incident happened while Gen. Dawood was having a meeting with other officials in governor’s compound.

"Gen. Dawood, commander of 303rd Pamir Zone, Maulvi Shah Jahan, police chief of Takhar, a security guard and Takhar governor’s secretary were killed in the attack." Hassan Basir, chief of Takhar hospital informed media reporters.

Ten people including governor of Takhar and security guards were wounded in the attack, he added. Most of those injured in the incident are said to have suffered major burns. No group including the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.

General Dawood was a key commander of the resistance against Soviet occupation in the years of jihad. He was a close friend of the northern alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.

After the fall of the Taliban regime, Gen. Dawood became the Counternarcotics deputy minister of Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry and was later appointed as the commander of 303 Pamir Zone in the north.

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the laughing matter is its always a pakistani or an afghan who gets killed in those attacks, nato or americans are always wounded

 

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Afghan Bomb Attack Kills Police Chiefs; ISAF Condemns ‘Senseless Murder'

By Paul Tighe - May 29, 2011 2:07 AM GMT

A suicide bomber killed two police chiefs at a meeting of Afghan and coalition officials in the northern province of Takhar, an incident the International Security Assistance Force called “senseless murder.”

General Mohammad Daud Daud and the Takhar provincial police chief were among seven people killed in yesterday’s attack, ISAF said in a statement on its website. General Daud was the police commander for Afghanistan’s northern region, the Associated Press reported, citing the provincial health director. German General Markus Kneip, the ISAF force commander in the north, was injured, AP said.

“ISAF strongly condemns the senseless murder of these Afghan and coalition members who have fought so hard for the people of Afghanistan,” Rear Admiral Vic Beck, ISAF director of public affairs, said in the statement.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization increased security after the Taliban said earlier this month it would attack government offices and military bases in a new spring offensive. Afghan and coalition forces three weeks ago repelled an assault by Taliban fighters, including five suicide bombers, on government and military buildings in the southern city of Kandahar.

The suicide bomber yesterday attacked the governor’s office in Takhar after a meeting of Afghan and coalition officials, ISAF said. Nine people were injured in the incident, it said.
Governor Hurt

Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the provincial governor of Takhar, suffered burns to his head, hands and back in the attack, AP reported. General Shah Jahan Noori, Takhar’s police chief, was among those killed, it cited provincial Health Director Hassain Basech as saying.

Kneip was slightly wounded, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency cited German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere as saying yesterday in Berlin.

Germany has 5,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, the largest group in NATO’s 50,000-strong ISAF contingent that is drawn from 47 nations.

The U.S. has about 97,000 soldiers in the country after last year adding 30,000 to its force. President Barack Obama’s administration is deciding how many troops will leave when a withdrawal program begins in July.
The Taliban, which gave shelter to Osama bin Laden’s al- Qaeda movement, were ousted from power by the U.S.-led coalition that invaded Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL commandos in Pakistan on May 2.

Western militaries are preparing to hand over security to Afghan forces in all the country’s provinces by 2014, a target date set by NATO leaders at a summit meeting in Lisbon last November. By July, Afghanistan’s national army will take over security in three provinces and four cities, President Hamid Karzai said in March.

To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Tighe in Sydney at ptighe@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Paul Tighe at ptighe@bloomberg.net

Afghan Bomb Attack Kills Police Chiefs; ISAF Condemns

the laughing matter is its always a pakistani or an afghan who gets killed in those attacks, nato or americans are always wounded

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Suicide attack hits Afghan police, four killed
(AFP) – 16 hours ago

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber targeted prayers for a prominent assassinated Afghan police chief on Friday, killing four policemen but another top officer escaped unharmed, officials said.

Eighteen other people were wounded in the attack in Kunduz city, capital of the province of the same name which has become a Taliban bastion in recent years and seen an increase in insurgent assaults.

Provincial government spokesman Mahboobullah Saeedi said the suicide bomber tried to enter a mosque where memorial prayers were taking place for general Mohammed Daoud Daoud, but policemen prevented him from getting inside.

"The target was the provincial police chief, but he is not hurt," the spokesman added.

Samiullah Qatra's predecessor as provincial police chief, Abdul Rahman Sayedkhaili, was himself killed on March 10 in a suicide attack in Kunduz claimed by the Taliban, the militia leading a nearly 10-year insurgency.

The provincial health chief, Doctor Zafar Noori, said the bodies of four policemen had been brought to the main hospital, while four civilians and 14 policemen had been wounded in the attack.

Saeedi had given an initial death toll of three with three wounded.

Daoud Daoud, head of police in northern Afghanistan, was killed with five other people in a suicide attack claimed by the Taliban on May 28 in Taloqan, capital of Takhar, the neighbouring province to Kunduz.

He was a key figure in recent Afghan history. A former commander of Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance, he oversaw the siege of Kunduz, the final major battle of the 2001 US-led invasion that brought down the Taliban regime.

A former deputy interior minister, when he was the country's top counter-narcotics official, Daoud had accused the Taliban of profiting from the opium trade by forging an alliance with drug smugglers and taxing farmers.

There was no immediate comment from the Taliban on Friday about the latest attack, but the militia frequently targets government officials as well as police and army in their battle to bring down the US-backed Kabul government.

Afghan police and army are set to take increasing responsibility for security as foreign troops stage a phased withdrawal, which has been billed to start in July and is due to finish by the end of 2014.

Friday's attack came with Afghan President Hamid Karzai due in Pakistan for talks likely to focus on stepping up efforts to negotiate peace with the Taliban after nearly a decade of conflict in both countries.

He is the first head of state to visit Pakistan since US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in the city of Abbottabad on May 2, which has heightened calls within the United States for its forces to leave Afghanistan.

In Washington, US defense secretary nominee Leon Panetta said Thursday he backed pulling out a significant number of troops next month, in a break with outgoing Pentagon chief Robert Gates.

Obama is due to announce soon how many troops will leave the country next month, while Panetta is on track to replace Gates July 1, and be succeeded as CIA chief by General David Petraeus, now the US commander in Afghanistan.