3 NATO Drivers, 13 Fuel Tankers Destroyed in Taliban Attack, Governor Khorshid Killed, October 22, 2010

3 NATO Drivers, 13 Fuel Tankers Destroyed in Taliban Attack, Governor Khorshid Killed

October 22, 2010

Taliban hit NATO convoy in Afghanistan, killing 3

AP, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan –

An Afghan official says insurgents (Taliban fighters) have attacked a NATO convoy in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three drivers and setting 13 fuel tankers ablaze.

Muhammed Jan Rasolyar says the attack happened Thursday night in Shahra Safa in Zabul province. He is the spokesman for the provincial governor.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack.

Insurgents have stepped up attacks on NATO supply convoys in recent months.

International forces and the Afghan army are moving into the insurgency's traditional heartland in the south, but Taliban affacks have increased in other parts of the country.

Afghan governor killed in bomb attack‎

Press TV, Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:15AM

A district governor was killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan amid the rising insecurity in the war-ravaged country.

Khorshid, the governor of Dur Baba district in southeast of Nangarhar province, was driving to work when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle on Friday.

"The district governor has been martyred. Three other people, his driver and guards have been injured," AFP quoted police spokesman Abdul Ghafour as saying.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. However, according to the police spokesman, the pro-Taliban militants are suspected of carrying out the assault.

Khorshid is the second district governor to be killed in war-torn Afghanistan in the past month.

Earlier, a powerful bomb explosion killed the governor of the Kunduz province along with many other innocent civilians in a mosque in the Takhar province in northern Afghanistan.

Violence has recently spread from Afghanistan's south to other areas including, northern and western areas despite the presence of some 150,000 foreign troops in the country.

Furthermore, hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, causing Afghans to become increasingly outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.

The situation is adding fuel to the surging anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the death toll of US-led soldiers in Afghanistan has undermined the support of public opinion in the United States and other Western countries for the continuation of war in Afghanistan.

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