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| US soldier wounded in Afghan attack |
| 2004-07-23 |
| At least one American soldier was wounded in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar on Friday in what the Taliban said was a remote-controlled car bomb attack. "To our knowledge only one soldier has been wounded," a U.S. military spokesman said. He had no other details. Afghan police said four U.S. soldiers had been hurt. Senior police official General Salim Khan said the convoy had been heading toward Kandahar city from a nearby U.S. military air base when a car filled with explosives blew up. "American forces have cordoned off the site of the blast and are carrying out an investigation. It seems that explosive materials were packed in a car and it went off when the convoy was passing by," Khan said. He said earlier that a car filled with explosives had collided with the convoy. Mullah Dadullah, a senior Taliban commander in the region, claimed responsibility for the attack. "It was a remote-controlled bomb and it was planted by the Taliban," he told Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |