4 American Soldiers Killed in Afghan Blast
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/international/asia/13afghan.html

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 12 - Four American soldiers were killed
in a roadside-bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, and
two suicide bombers in a car blew themselves up next to the vehicle
of the chairman of Afghanistan's upper house of Parliament here in
the capital, killing at least two people and wounding at least seven
others, officials said.

The Afghan official, Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, escaped serious injury.
He said he believed that the suicide attack was the work of Pakistan's
intelligence service.

Mr. Mojadeddi, who served as Afghanistan's president in 1992, met with
journalists two hours after the suicide bombing. His hands were heavily
bandaged. He said he had been on his way to the Parliament building when
a car drew up alongside his armored vehicle and exploded.

Mr. Mojadeddi, who is from a leading religious family, is one of the
most influential members of the government.

He blamed Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence for the attack, based,
he said, on information from "different channels," and he seemed to cast
blame on President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, too.

"The Pakistani government and I.S.I. are the big enemies of Afghanistan,"
he said.

He said that his peace commission had succeeded in persuading 1,300 people
to end their opposition to the government and that Pakistan was opposed to
that.
"I.S.I. doesn't want stability and peace in Afghanistan," he said.
"They want us to be poor and to be in need to them."

President Hamid Karzai said also he had no doubt that the attack was
organized by foreigners, and he promised a full investigation.

"We received intelligence two months ago that plans were under way
to attack important figures, including attacks on myself,"
he told reporters at the presidential palace. During a visit to
Pakistan last month, Mr. Karzai handed Mr. Musharraf intelligence files
on Taliban members who he said were living in Pakistan and involved with
suicide bombing cells and planning insurgent attacks in Afghanistan.
He asked Pakistan to do more to stop such attacks. Mr. Musharraf later
described much of the intelligence as "nonsense" and denied that
Pakistan was working to undermine Afghanistan.
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