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Afghanistan

Suicide Bomber Injures Two In Afghanistan

(RFE/RL)

2 January 2006 -- Officials in Kandahar say a suicide bomber targeting a convoy of foreign troops blew himself up and wounded at least one woman and child today in the center of the southern Afghan city.

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U.S. military spokesman Mike Cody said one American soldier received "minor injuries" in the attack.


Asadullah Khan, the governor of Kandahar province, said at least one military vehicle was slightly damaged.


A spokesman for the Taliban, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, told Reuters the bomber was a Taliban guerrilla and the blast killed five U.S. soldiers.


(Reuters/AP)

 
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