Seven people, including two police officers, three German soldiers of NATO and two guards were killed today in a Taliban suicide attack against the governor's house in the northern Afghan province of Takhar, where senior officials of the country and participating Alliance in a meeting. Among those attending the meeting was the commander of NATO forces in northern Afghanistan, Germany Markus Kneip, who has been hurt.
One of those killed in the General Daud Daud, head up the Afghan police in the north, exviceministro to Combat Drug and mujahedeen who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside the office of the governor of Takhar, killing seven people and wounding nine others," said government spokesman Mohamed Faiz Tauhidi.
"Among the dead are Gen. Daud Daud and the police chief of Takhar, Shah Jahan Nori," he added Tauhidi, has also stated that the provincial governor, Abdul Jabar Taqwa, was wounded in the attack. The death of Daud Daud, a figure considered crucial in the fight against drugs and action against the mafias, was also confirmed by his secretary, Ahmad Hamid.
The spokesman has also ensured that among those killed three German soldiers of the NATO mission in the country, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) - which were present at the scene. In a statement, a spokesman for that organization has only confirmed that there were "several casualties" among his troops, without specifying details, but acknowledged that most of the soldiers of the ISAF from Germany in Takhar.
According to official sources, a suicide bomber slipped into the offices of governor in the provincial capital, Talucán, when there was the meeting of senior security officials, where he detonated the explosive charge he was carrying. The attack was claimed little later by the Taliban, through his spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, who has said that the explosion took the lives "of those who were at the meeting, including Gen.
Daud Daud." According to witnesses in the area heard gunshots, suggesting, according to Afghan agency AIP that many insurgents may have reached the capital of Takhar, a quiet area before where security has deteriorated in the last year. Talucán just ten days ago was the scene of violent protests over the death in an ISAF operation, two men and two women, which led to fierce clashes in which Afghan police killed twelve people and wounding octa .
"Some Taliban managed to infiltrate the crowd opportunistically, and attacked security forces threw grenades," he said at that time the regional governor, who criticized the work of international troops. And in October last year, the provincial governor of the neighboring province of Kunduz and eleven civilians were killed when a bomb exploded as they prayed in a mosque Talucán itself.
Takhar is far from the main insurgent strongholds in southern and eastern Afghanistan, although the area has several pockets of people Pashtun, the ethnic group that traditionally come from the Taliban. The insurgents are engaged in full spring military offensive in fact a campaign of suicide attacks, bombings and guerrilla operations against Afghan forces and support services, and international troops in the country.
So far this year, have died in Afghanistan some 200 troops in ISAF, with a total of 150,000 military personnel deployed and plans to begin transferring security to Afghan forces in seven areas next July. 
One of those killed in the General Daud Daud, head up the Afghan police in the north, exviceministro to Combat Drug and mujahedeen who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside the office of the governor of Takhar, killing seven people and wounding nine others," said government spokesman Mohamed Faiz Tauhidi.
"Among the dead are Gen. Daud Daud and the police chief of Takhar, Shah Jahan Nori," he added Tauhidi, has also stated that the provincial governor, Abdul Jabar Taqwa, was wounded in the attack. The death of Daud Daud, a figure considered crucial in the fight against drugs and action against the mafias, was also confirmed by his secretary, Ahmad Hamid.
The spokesman has also ensured that among those killed three German soldiers of the NATO mission in the country, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) - which were present at the scene. In a statement, a spokesman for that organization has only confirmed that there were "several casualties" among his troops, without specifying details, but acknowledged that most of the soldiers of the ISAF from Germany in Takhar.
According to official sources, a suicide bomber slipped into the offices of governor in the provincial capital, Talucán, when there was the meeting of senior security officials, where he detonated the explosive charge he was carrying. The attack was claimed little later by the Taliban, through his spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, who has said that the explosion took the lives "of those who were at the meeting, including Gen.
Daud Daud." According to witnesses in the area heard gunshots, suggesting, according to Afghan agency AIP that many insurgents may have reached the capital of Takhar, a quiet area before where security has deteriorated in the last year. Talucán just ten days ago was the scene of violent protests over the death in an ISAF operation, two men and two women, which led to fierce clashes in which Afghan police killed twelve people and wounding octa .
"Some Taliban managed to infiltrate the crowd opportunistically, and attacked security forces threw grenades," he said at that time the regional governor, who criticized the work of international troops. And in October last year, the provincial governor of the neighboring province of Kunduz and eleven civilians were killed when a bomb exploded as they prayed in a mosque Talucán itself.
Takhar is far from the main insurgent strongholds in southern and eastern Afghanistan, although the area has several pockets of people Pashtun, the ethnic group that traditionally come from the Taliban. The insurgents are engaged in full spring military offensive in fact a campaign of suicide attacks, bombings and guerrilla operations against Afghan forces and support services, and international troops in the country.
So far this year, have died in Afghanistan some 200 troops in ISAF, with a total of 150,000 military personnel deployed and plans to begin transferring security to Afghan forces in seven areas next July.
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