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The interior minister and the intelligence chief resigned after a Taliban attack on the national peace jirga. An al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander and several of his bodyguards were killed in Farah province. The Taliban killed six Afghans and two British soldiers in attacks in Kunduz, Kandahar, and Helmand; three ISAF soldiers died in a vehicle accident in the south. A suicide bomber killed only himself in Nangarhar.