KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) A suicide bomber put to sleep three people today outside the house a new starting inside Afghanistan in which U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta possessed visited a long time earlier, authorities said.
The Thursday assault occurred in the garden this airfield within northern Kandahar a long time following U.S. recognized experienced departed from your area, CNN reported.
CNN quotes Panetta while saying probably these harmed appeared to be an American. The alternative a couple of were Afghan civilians, the record said.
The attack in the evening targeted a good MRAP, or your mine-resistant wait covered vehicle, while it has been going into your base. It as well wounded eighteen alternative Afghan civilians, the particular report said.
CNN said this Taliban maintained responsibility, with its spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi expressing inside a strong e-mail that this strike was completed by a "brave Taliban fighter." However, that information failed to express that the episode had been linked with Panetta's visit.
A U.S. official travelling having Panetta, however, said your assistant was by no means around danger.
Panetta got here within Kabul Wednesday along with The New York Times said his take a look at to Kandahar Thursday hasn't been released previous to that trip.
The Times reported Panetta, within a announcement management meeting using Afghan President Hamid Karzai , claimed the bombing murdered one American along with hurt three others.
In other developments, the particular Times quoted Afghan administrators that Asadullah Khalid, Afghanistan's criminal chief, appeared to be sent on the United States with regard to remedy following appearing wounded with a good assassination endeavor previous week. Khalid reportedly experienced abdominal wounds.
Panetta announced in which U.S. President Barack Obama have invited Karzai in the future that will Washington beginning the following month in order to discuss a "shared perspective associated with Afghanistan above 2014," the Times reported.
U.S. and also NATO causes are already signed to separate their battle experditions with the stop with 2014. After 2014, now there may possibly a smaller U.S. navy presence to coach as well as assist Afghan safety measures forces.
"We are committed to respecting the actual sovereignty regarding Afghanistan," Panetta was cited while saying. "We think that most of us could achieve the kind of contract that might possibly be tolerable to help both equally countries."
Agreeing, Karzai said any arrangement that values "Afghan sovereignty and Afghan laws" is one they can present to his open "with ease."
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