US adds Taliban commander involved in IED, suicide attacks to terrorism list
Abdul Samad Achekzai has been linked to at least 11 suicide attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces in 2010 and 2011.
Abdul Samad Achekzai has been linked to at least 11 suicide attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces in 2010 and 2011.
A four-man suicide assault team hit the United Nations Refugee Agency in Kandahar city. The attack is the second of its kind in the city in five days.
The Taliban also attempted to storm a district center in Ghazni.
The suicide bomber hit a police station in Helmand’s provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, killing 10 policemen and a child.
A six-man suicide assault team hit the government center in Tarin Kot as well as the home of a key power broker in the southern Afghan province.
Mayor Hamidi, the fourth senior official in the south to be assassinated this month, was killed in a hallway near his office. The suicide bomber hid the explosives in his turban.
Two senior clerics were killed in a bombing at a service in Kandahar for President Karzai’s brother. The suicide bomber hid the explosives in his turban.
The Taliban commander is associated with the Mullah Dadullah Front, a radical Taliban subgroup closely linked to al Qaeda.