Suicide bombers kill 4 Canadian troops in south, 3 Afghan police in Kabul market
(18 Sep 2006) Kandahar 1. Wide of explosion site with local people standing around site 2. Girl in explosion area with dead cow in background 3. Locals showing uniform belts they found at site 4. Close of belt 5. Explosion area with dead cow and local people 6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Fazel Mohammed, eye witness : "I was standing outside of my house and the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) forces were walking and a suicide attacker exploded near to the NATO forces." 7. NATO forces small base 8. Canadian NATO forces convoy of tanks passing by 9. Medium shot of tanks 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Edward, Canadian NATO battle personnel "At 0930 hours local time a suicide bomber detonated near ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers and the result was that four were killed and other were wounded." Kabul 11. Various of damaged vehicle 12. NATO and Afghan forces 13. Tilt up from blood to a policeman's body 14. Set up shot of General Ali Shah Paktiawal, Criminal Director of Kabul Police Forces 15. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) General Ali Shah Paktiawal, Criminal Director of Kabul Police Forces "It was an attack by the enemies of peace and stability. In Pul I Charkhi Road there were two policemen killed and one wounded, there are some casualties of which we do not have the exact number yet." 16. Various of US soldiers at the scene 17. Wide shot scene STORYLINE A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed four Canadian troops patrolling in southern Afghanistan on Monday and wounded at least 27 other people, officials said. Stewart Edward from the Canadian NATO battle personnel said: "At 0930 hours local time a suicide bomber detonated near ISAF soldiers and the result was that four were killed and other were wounded." The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast. Another suicide attacker blew up his bomb-packed car in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing three police, while two more police died in a roadside bombing in the south. Police also killed 13 Taliban in a southern gunfight. The four Canadian soldiers were killed when their foot patrol was attacked in Kafir Band, a village in southern Kandahar province's Panjwayi district, said Karen Johnstone, a spokeswoman for the Canadian military in Ottawa. The attack happened in the same area where NATO forces said a day earlier they had ended a two-week Canadian-led operation against Taliban insurgents that they described as successful and had killed at least 510 militants. Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, who claims to be a spokesman for Taliban affairs in southern Afghanistan, said the bomber was an Afghan from Kandahar named Mullah Qudrat Ullah. Ahmadi, whose exact ties to the militants are not known, told an Associated Press reporter by telephone from an undisclosed location that militants would continue attacking U.S., NATO and other coalition forces. In Kabul, a suicide car bomber killed three Afghan police and wounded three others in the eastern suburb of Poli-e-Charki, said Ali Shah Paktiawal, the criminal director of Kabul police. "It was an attack by the enemies of peace and stability", he said. Police also clashed with suspected insurgents in neighbouring Helmand province on Sunday, killing 13 suspected Taliban and wounding four, said Ghulam Nabil Malakheil, the provincial police chief. Police recovered the dead militants' bodies, including that of Mullah Mohammed Akhunzada, a known Taliban commander, scattered throughout orchards in the Gereshk district village of Hawasa, Malakheil said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
