press attache of the six killed in a suicide attack as NATO accused of killing civilians in Kunar
A suicide bomber killed six people, the first head of the U.S. State Department to die in Afghanistan since the 1970s, and NATO air strikes killed 10 children in a week weekend was a bloody reminder of the nationwide conflict.
Saturday, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives in the center of Qalat as well as a U.S. military convoy approved the provincial governor and his entourage. The explosion killed and seriously injured several people in the two groups, a Kabul-based diplomat Smedinghoff young Anne.
In addition, 10 children and an Afghan woman killed by airstrikes during battle time in a remote part of eastern Kunar province, on the same day, according to local officials. An American civilian adviser to the Afghan intelligence agency was also killed in the fighting. "The morning after sunrise, planes appeared in the sky and air raids began and continued all night," said Gul Pacha tribal elder, who is also the head of the local council where shultan The attack occurred.
A senior Taliban commander was in the house, but you could make women and children between one and 12 years who were members of his family, Pasha told The Associated Press by telephone.
"I do not think they knew that all these women and children were in the house because they were under attack from the house and they shot at the home,"- he told The Associated Press by telephone district.
civilian casualties caused by foreign forces have been one of the most emotional and high profile of the war in Afghanistan, triggering street protests and condemnation of officials, including President Hamid Karzai.
They remain a common scenario of national anger, and earlier this forbidden Karzai Afghan forces to call airstrikes year, but its purpose seems to have been ignored in the field.
The deaths occurred chief U.S. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in the country to discuss plans for long-term training for Afghan soldiers, this was expected to lead the fight against the Taliban.
Smedinghoff, the government official killed in Qalat, Zabul Province, was a press officer for 25 years in Chicago, who had less than four months to serve in Afghanistan. At the time of the attack that went to a local high school to help deliver the books. The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, paid a personal tribute to Smedinghoff, whom he met during a visit to Kabul, less than a month earlier. She was responsible for organizing the trip, a prestigious role for someone in his second mission abroad, and remembered as "strong, smart and capable," with great potential.
"Anne was friendly and helpful, doing everything possible to help you. Tragic," the Wall Street correspondent Maria Abi-Habib Journal on Twitter.
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