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Apr 7, 2013, 10:59:31 AM4/7/13
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/07/us-afghanistan-attack-zabul-idUSBRE93506820130407
Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sun Apr 7, 2013
(Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three
U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American
civilian died in a separate attack in the east.
The diplomat and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in Zabul
province when the blast occurred, Secretary of State John Kerry said
in a statement.
The soldiers and the diplomat died in the blast along with a civilian
employee of the Defense Department and Afghan civilians, Kerry said.
His statement gave no overall death toll.
The Washington Post identified the diplomat as Anne Smedinghoff, 25,
citing her parents. Smedinghoff was Kerry's embassy guide and aide
when he visited Afghanistan last month, the paper said.
Local and international officials in the region said earlier that six
people died in the blast: three U.S. soldiers, two U.S. civilians and
an Afghan doctor.
Provincial governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery was in the convoy, but was
unharmed, local and NATO officials said.
"Our American officials and their Afghan colleagues were on their way
to donate books to students in a school in Qalat, the province's
capital, when they were struck by this despicable attack," Kerry said
in his statement.
He said he had met the diplomat during a trip to Kabul, and spoke to
her parents after her death. Four other U.S. diplomats were wounded,
one critically, Kerry said in his statement.
The convoy was near a hospital and a NATO base at the time of the
explosion. Five Afghans, including a student and two reporters, were
wounded, a local official said.
The attack came as the top U.S. general, Martin Dempsey, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in the country for a short visit to
assess how much training Afghan troops need before U.S. troops pull
out as planned by the end of 2014.
In an attack in Afghanistan's east, an American civilian working with
the U.S. government was killed during an insurgent attack, the
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
Zabul shares borders with Pakistan to the southeast and Kandahar
province, the birthplace of the Taliban, to the south.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Zabul attack in a text
message from spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. He said a car bomb killed
seven foreigners and wounded five others, although he later revised
the toll to 13 foreigners killed and nine wounded.
The Taliban routinely exaggerates casualty figures.
The killings followed a bloody Taliban assault in the country's west
on Wednesday that killed 44 people in a courtroom in Farah province.
The United Nations says civilians are being increasingly targeted.
In a statement posted online earlier on Saturday, Ahmadi said the
Taliban would continue to target Afghan judges and prosecutors.
"The Islamic Emirate, from today onwards, will keep a close watch over
courthouses, all its personnel and all those who try to harm
Mujahideen and will deal with them the same as the judges and
prosecutors of Farah."
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Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sun Apr 7, 2013
(Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three
U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American
civilian died in a separate attack in the east.
The diplomat and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in Zabul
province when the blast occurred, Secretary of State John Kerry said
in a statement.
The soldiers and the diplomat died in the blast along with a civilian
employee of the Defense Department and Afghan civilians, Kerry said.
His statement gave no overall death toll.
The Washington Post identified the diplomat as Anne Smedinghoff, 25,
citing her parents. Smedinghoff was Kerry's embassy guide and aide
when he visited Afghanistan last month, the paper said.
Local and international officials in the region said earlier that six
people died in the blast: three U.S. soldiers, two U.S. civilians and
an Afghan doctor.
Provincial governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery was in the convoy, but was
unharmed, local and NATO officials said.
"Our American officials and their Afghan colleagues were on their way
to donate books to students in a school in Qalat, the province's
capital, when they were struck by this despicable attack," Kerry said
in his statement.
He said he had met the diplomat during a trip to Kabul, and spoke to
her parents after her death. Four other U.S. diplomats were wounded,
one critically, Kerry said in his statement.
The convoy was near a hospital and a NATO base at the time of the
explosion. Five Afghans, including a student and two reporters, were
wounded, a local official said.
The attack came as the top U.S. general, Martin Dempsey, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in the country for a short visit to
assess how much training Afghan troops need before U.S. troops pull
out as planned by the end of 2014.
In an attack in Afghanistan's east, an American civilian working with
the U.S. government was killed during an insurgent attack, the
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
Zabul shares borders with Pakistan to the southeast and Kandahar
province, the birthplace of the Taliban, to the south.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Zabul attack in a text
message from spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. He said a car bomb killed
seven foreigners and wounded five others, although he later revised
the toll to 13 foreigners killed and nine wounded.
The Taliban routinely exaggerates casualty figures.
The killings followed a bloody Taliban assault in the country's west
on Wednesday that killed 44 people in a courtroom in Farah province.
The United Nations says civilians are being increasingly targeted.
In a statement posted online earlier on Saturday, Ahmadi said the
Taliban would continue to target Afghan judges and prosecutors.
"The Islamic Emirate, from today onwards, will keep a close watch over
courthouses, all its personnel and all those who try to harm
Mujahideen and will deal with them the same as the judges and
prosecutors of Farah."
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