A demonstration against the bombing on Tuesday that made Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan ended in a clash that left 12 dead, a day in which 13 policemen were also killed due to a suicide bombing. At least two thousand protesters demonstrated in Taloqan, capital of Takhar province (in the Northeast), shouted slogans against U.S.
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, when Afghan police opened fire, leaving a dozen dead and At least 80 injured. "Some Taliban managed to infiltrate the crowd opportunistically, and attacked security forces threw grenades justified the provincial governor, Abdul Taqwa Jawar. Afghans protested the NATO bombing made on Tuesday that left four people dead, including two women.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, asked the commander Force Security Assistance Force (ISAF), General David Petraeus, an explanation of what happened on Thursday and confirmed that the dead were members of one family. Petraeus, who in September will hold the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, in English), said the operation that killed four people was aimed at the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a group that also has a presence in Afghanistan.
In another incident, a man blew up his car-bomb attack on a truck carrying cadets, on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed the attack. Three months ago Jalalabad was the scene of another bloody attack in which a command composed of seven suicide robbed a bank and killed nearly 40 people, half of them civilians.
The Taliban are an extremist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when they were ousted by Afghan forces with NATO assistance. The Taliban movement is in the list of terrorist organizations and the United States is composed of minority ethnic Pashtun tribes, Uzbek, Arab and Chechen.
United States believed to have their base in the Pakistani city of Quetta. On Friday, Taliban carried out an attack that left 80 dead in northeastern Pakistan. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the group, said it was an attack to avenge the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
"This was the first revenge for the martyrdom of Osama. Expect major attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. " The U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said there is no evidence that Pakistan knew that the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, were in his country. "There is no evidence that the Pakistani leaders knew about the presence of Bin Laden," he told a press conferecnia.
11 days ago, President Barack Obama called on Islamabad to investigate the support network that enabled the world's most wanted men in Pakistan remain undisturbed. Gates said that U.S. authorities continue to investigate to know "if anyone knew" about the presence of Bin Laden, but said the United States should continue to support the Arab country due to the interests they have.
At the same conference attended by the head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, who considered it important to stop talking publicly about 6 elite team of Navy Seals who performed the operation that killed Osama bin Laden on 2 May, due that some media have reported that some of the soldiers feared reprisals against their families.
"It's a story that if we stop talking, will never end and needs to end." 
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, when Afghan police opened fire, leaving a dozen dead and At least 80 injured. "Some Taliban managed to infiltrate the crowd opportunistically, and attacked security forces threw grenades justified the provincial governor, Abdul Taqwa Jawar. Afghans protested the NATO bombing made on Tuesday that left four people dead, including two women.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, asked the commander Force Security Assistance Force (ISAF), General David Petraeus, an explanation of what happened on Thursday and confirmed that the dead were members of one family. Petraeus, who in September will hold the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, in English), said the operation that killed four people was aimed at the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a group that also has a presence in Afghanistan.
In another incident, a man blew up his car-bomb attack on a truck carrying cadets, on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed the attack. Three months ago Jalalabad was the scene of another bloody attack in which a command composed of seven suicide robbed a bank and killed nearly 40 people, half of them civilians.
The Taliban are an extremist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when they were ousted by Afghan forces with NATO assistance. The Taliban movement is in the list of terrorist organizations and the United States is composed of minority ethnic Pashtun tribes, Uzbek, Arab and Chechen.
United States believed to have their base in the Pakistani city of Quetta. On Friday, Taliban carried out an attack that left 80 dead in northeastern Pakistan. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the group, said it was an attack to avenge the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
"This was the first revenge for the martyrdom of Osama. Expect major attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. " The U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said there is no evidence that Pakistan knew that the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, were in his country. "There is no evidence that the Pakistani leaders knew about the presence of Bin Laden," he told a press conferecnia.
11 days ago, President Barack Obama called on Islamabad to investigate the support network that enabled the world's most wanted men in Pakistan remain undisturbed. Gates said that U.S. authorities continue to investigate to know "if anyone knew" about the presence of Bin Laden, but said the United States should continue to support the Arab country due to the interests they have.
At the same conference attended by the head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, who considered it important to stop talking publicly about 6 elite team of Navy Seals who performed the operation that killed Osama bin Laden on 2 May, due that some media have reported that some of the soldiers feared reprisals against their families.
"It's a story that if we stop talking, will never end and needs to end."
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