.Kabul suicide attack planner killed - NATO
KABUL, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Afghan and NATO-led forces killed a militant suspected of planning last week's suicide bomb attack that killed a U.S. soldier and four Afghans in the centre of Kabul, NATO-led forces said on Friday.
The attack happened close to the German embassy and a U.S. military base and targeted a U.S. military vehicle guarding a fuel tank. Another U.S. soldier is still in critical condition.
NATO-led troops and Afghan security forces carried out raids on compounds in the capital and in Logar province, about 70 km (45 miles) south of Kabul, overnight, and detained one person and killed one other suspect.
"A (bomb) facilitator was detained during the operation and a senior insurgent commander killed," a NATO statement said.
The operation was conducted by Afghan intelligence officers, a police chief for Logar province told Reuters, and the statement said no civilians were killed or injured in the raids.
In a separate statement on Friday, NATO said its forces killed one civilian and wounded four others during a raid on an insurgent compound on Jan. 21 in Sangin district of Helmand province in south Afghanistan.
One woman and two children were among the casualties, found by foreign troops as they entered a compound which they had fired upon in self-defence.
"At the time of the incident, ISAF forces were conducting an intelligence-led operation ... Inside the compound ISAF forces found five casualties; two males, one female and two children," the statement said, adding one of the men died from his wounds.
Nearly 2,000 civilians were killed in fighting in Afghanistan last year, security experts say, and civilian casualty numbers are a source of mounting tension between President Hamid Karzai and foreign forces.
Reuters
The attack happened close to the German embassy and a U.S. military base and targeted a U.S. military vehicle guarding a fuel tank. Another U.S. soldier is still in critical condition.
NATO-led troops and Afghan security forces carried out raids on compounds in the capital and in Logar province, about 70 km (45 miles) south of Kabul, overnight, and detained one person and killed one other suspect.
"A (bomb) facilitator was detained during the operation and a senior insurgent commander killed," a NATO statement said.
The operation was conducted by Afghan intelligence officers, a police chief for Logar province told Reuters, and the statement said no civilians were killed or injured in the raids.
In a separate statement on Friday, NATO said its forces killed one civilian and wounded four others during a raid on an insurgent compound on Jan. 21 in Sangin district of Helmand province in south Afghanistan.
One woman and two children were among the casualties, found by foreign troops as they entered a compound which they had fired upon in self-defence.
"At the time of the incident, ISAF forces were conducting an intelligence-led operation ... Inside the compound ISAF forces found five casualties; two males, one female and two children," the statement said, adding one of the men died from his wounds.
Nearly 2,000 civilians were killed in fighting in Afghanistan last year, security experts say, and civilian casualty numbers are a source of mounting tension between President Hamid Karzai and foreign forces.
Reuters
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