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Afghan car bomb strikes convoy
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published March 20, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber exploded his car next to a U.S. Embassy convoy Monday, breaking months of relative calm in the Afghan capital with an attack that killed a teenage pedestrian and wounded five security guards on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road. The first suicide attack in Kabul since December knocked one armored SUV across Jalalabad Road. Two other Chevrolet Suburbans also were damaged. A 15-year-old Afghan on the side of the road was killed, said Hasib Arian, the district police chief. Five U.S. Embassy guards were injured, one seriously, said Col. Tom Collins, spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. The U.S. ambassador, Ronald Neumann, was not in the convoy, embassy spokesman Joe Mellott said. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said a Taliban militant conducted the attack. Also Monday, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, a reporter for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, was released by the Taliban after two weeks. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said securing his freedom "was not simple."
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