KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AFP) The police main regarding north Afghanistan and also three German troopers were involving eleven people murdered in a suicide bombing with the Takhar governor's company Saturday, an official said.
"Seven persons have been put to sleep plus seven wounded," Faiz Mohammed Tawhidi, spokesman with regard to the governor of Takhar province, instructed AFP.
"Three German troopers and a number of Afghans, including General Mohammed Daoud Daoud as well as chief regarding police (for Takhar province) were on the list of dead," he said.
Qutbuddin Kamal, a elderly aide to be able to provincial governor Abdul Jabar Taqwa, confirmed that General Daoud along with the provincial court arrest chief had been killed, introducing which the governor had been wounded.
"There was your getting together with related to safety measures at the sophisticated the place that the governor's office is," your dog said.
"At your end with the meeting, once we wanted to be able to leave, your suicide bomber waiting around your corridor blew himself up."
Daoud seemed to be a new major determine in Afghanistan's recent history, a new previous military services commander of Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance who seem to oversaw the actual siege connected with Kunduz, one more main struggle of the actual US-led attack regarding Afghanistan in 2001.
Earlier, he acquired happen to be portion of the actual Afghan mujahedeen fighting alongside occupying Soviet troops.
A previous deputy indoor minister, when he seemed to be the most notable counter-narcotics standard around Afghanistan, this individual charged the Taliban with capitalizing from the opium business by forging an connections using meds smugglers in addition to taxing farmers.
He also made at one position because governor of Takhar, apparently on the require from the British, who seem to considered him that country's cleanest governor.
The Taliban, that has also been battling a good insurgency versus the government within Kabul and its Western allies the way it has been ousted coming from electric power in 2001, stated accountability to the attack.
"One of some of our mujahedeen carried released the strike inside of the Takhar governor's sophisticated within a achieving about security," Zabihullah Mujahid, your Taliban spokesman, instructed AFP.
"Most (of the actual participants) ended up killed, which includes General Daoud Daoud, who has been chairing the particular meeting, the particular fundamental involving criminal arrest (for Takhar province)" and German in addition to American soldiers, he said.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) verified that it possessed troops amid the particular victims, but a spokesman did not designate their own nationality or perhaps no matter whether they were killed or perhaps wounded.
Daoud's getting rid of will come a couple months ahead of international soldiers are due to start handing through manage involving safety measures to help nearby causes along with distance themself on the country, an operation that may be caused by be concluded by means of 2014.
This month's getting rid of connected with Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by means of US troops in Pakistan features concluded in normally requires this method being speeded up.
There are usually currently all over 130,000 international troops, about two-thirds with the United States, stationed throughout Afghanistan.
Northern Afghanistan is generally a reasonably tranquil component of your insurgency-wracked country, despite the fact that before that month twelve people were mortally wounded whenever court arrest popped spice on 2,000 demonstrators protesting versus a NATO raid.
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