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 about 200 foreign soldiers were killed in Afghanistan so far this year seven US soldiers were killed by a bomb in the South of the Afghanistan, American officials say.

The incident is the most deadly single attack on foreign troops in a month. Initially, NATO confirmed the death but refused to disclose the nationalities.

Earlier, a NATO helicopter crashed in the East of the Afghanistan, killing one soldier, officials said.

About 200 foreign soldiers were killed by militants in Afghanistan so far this year.

Tafsir Khogyani, Commander of the border to the South of the Afghanistan police, told the BBC Sarwary Bilal in Kabul: "according to our initial information from police Coalition and Afghan went to destroy a container Taliban who had explosives and weapons." As soon as the helicopter landed and were patrolling the other forces of ISAF, the explosion took place.

"It took place in the district of Shorabak 19 kilometres (12 miles) from the Pakistani border."

Shorabak district lies between the districts of Registan and Spin Boldak.

Spin Boldak police that Chief Gen Abdul Raziq told the BBC that insurgents had been allowed in the region only two months ago.

Contested claim

During this time, led by NATO forces say that they have pushed Taliban fighters in a district in the Eastern province of Nuristan.

Local officials said up to 500 insurgents seized the Doab district on Wednesday.

The mission of international security challenges the account given by local leaders. "At no point was the centre of district of saturation, the Taliban were never in control,", said the spokesman for the ISAF Maj Tim James.

Afghan troops and NATO arrived in the district Wednesday afternoon and made a number of air strikes, he said.

"The area quiet Afghan troops and NATO much in control," said Maj. James.

It is very difficult to confirm the claims of NATO or how far their control extends in the district. The Governor of the province said that close to 30 insurgents were killed on Wednesday - but questions remain on the comings and goings of hundreds of others.

Our correspondent says that the mountainous area has several hideouts.

He said officials in Nuristan warning for more than a year that the Government and NATO should do more to counter the militant threat in the region.

Militants storm Afghan Government, building; 3 dead (AP)

By RAHIM FAIEZ and HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press Rahim Faiez and Heidi Vogt, Associated Press - 3 minutes ago

The forces of Kabul (Afghanistan) - the armed men wearing suicide vests stormed a building in the East of the Afghanistan Sunday at the start of the Government and engaged in a shoot-out with Afghan security around the compound, officials said. At least three policemen were killed in ongoing fighting.

The attack came a day after that a Taliban bomber infiltrated the main hospital in the capital military and killed at least six Afghan medical students.

Incident Sunday, three or four men armed with assault rifles and explosives to their bodies bearing shot their way in a compound which houses the Department of traffic on the edge of the city of Khost shortly after dawnsaid GEN Raz Mohammad Oryakhail, the Commander of the army for the province of Khost.

They killed a police guard as they entered, and then resumed on the second floor of the building, where they shot at police and soldiers outside, he said.

Afghan dies in apparent suicide at Guantanamo (AFP)

MIAMI (AFP) - a 37 - year Afghan detainee died at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide, the US military said in a statement.

The man, identified by a name, Inayatullah, was a planner admitted to Al-Qaida terrorist operations, under the command of the South. He arrived in Guantanamo in September 2007.

INAYATULLAH was the eighth to die in Guantanamo since the United States Government began transferring detainees after the eviction of 2001 of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

According to the statement, the Guantanamo guards found the prisoner unresponsive and not breathing in an audit of routine Wednesday. "After that extensive rescue efforts had been exhausted, the prisoner was delivered by a doctor," the command South said.

He added that Inayatullah had met with operators, routes developed travel, accommodation and vehicles for the fighters of Al-Qaeda smuggling via the Afghanistan, the Iran, Pakistan and Iraq and coordinated documentation.

The southern command, said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service will investigate the incident, something, it does with all detainee deaths.

Last year, a U.S. federal judge has dismissed a complaint filed by the families of two detainees at Guantanamo Bay who claim that their deaths in 2006 was covered when the Pentagon ruled suicides.

The Pentagon has maintained that the two men, Saudi prisoner Yasser al-Zahrani and Salah al-Salami of the Yemen, with a third inmate, Mani al-Utaybi, Saudi Arabia, committed suicide by hanging themselves in their cells. Utaybi family did not file a complaint.

Afghan officials: attack on rebels in the east failed

Kabul - hundreds of insurgents attacked checkpoints Afghan police in a northeastern province remote Tuesday with AK-47s and rockets but failed to invade the positions of the Government, officials said.

The assault in Nuristan, a rugged and mountainous, zone Pakistan province, is the second attack Taliban significantly on the forces of the Government of Afghanistan in less than four days and is part of the spring offensive both expected insurgents.

The effectiveness of the campaign of the Taliban can influence the size of drawdown expected the President Barack Obama of US troops in July, the scale which military officials have said will depend on conditions on the ground.

The Nuristan province police chief GEN Shams-ul Rahman Zahid, said about 400 Taliban fighters have launched their assault at dawn, hitting the forefront of the Government security around reserve police units housing database some 11 miles (18 km) South of the Parun provincial capital.

Tapered Nigerians just before nightfall the night with police always in control of the four checkpoints, which had been reinforced by the police more Parun, said.

Zahid declined to say how many police had come under attack or size of the forces based in Nuristan, even if it is considered to be small. He acknowledged asking NATO and the Afghan army for help.

Spokesman for the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack.

In Kabul, the Afghan army said that it would not send reinforcements, while NATO claimed to know nothing about these attacks. There are a few coalition or Afghan army troops in mountainous Nuristan, near the Pakistani border.

The Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said that the army was aware that "hundreds of insurgents" had attacked the police forces of Nuristan but had no intention to send troops in the immediate area. He said that did not have more details because there is no force in the region.

Asked why he did not send troops, Azimi said that at this stage the police was holding still their soil. He said that the Afghan army has no troops stationed in Nuristan because there no available staff to cover remote areas.

The American commander in charge of the region contested of the number of attacking the Taliban but said the United States sent a UAV unmanned in the area to verify the situation.

Speaking from Bagram Air Base, major-General John Campbell said a press conference in the Pentagon in the year, that he was there, "" we have never seen... mass 400 insurgents. ""

The Taliban launched the first major strike in its campaign of spring over the weekend in the city of Kandahar, birthplace of the movement and attack the economic pole in the South of the Afghanistan, hitting the city government buildings in a frontal. At least two dozen insurgents, two members of the Afghan security forces and a civilian were killed in two days of fighting in the city.

The Taliban and other rebel groups control large areas of Nuristan, Kunar and other provinces in the Northeast near the Pakistani border. Insurgents retain the sanctuary areas tribal lawless neighbouring Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan to attack the NATO troops.

Hizb-i-Islami, a militant group composed of loyalists of regional warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, also has a strong presence in the region. They are not designed to take part in attacks. The region also has smaller ultra-conservative Salafi groups.

Zahid said that he had intelligence that the strikes were conducted by Pakistanis and Arabs who have been crossing the border in Afghanistan.

The Taliban control also the tiny capital of the district Waygal rugged Nuristan, which they invaded with more than 300 fighters on March 29 and the white flag of the Emirate of Afghanistan - as the country was known when he was under the control of the Taliban before the invasion of 2001 us. Zahid said they also directly control half of the Kamdesh district.

"Unfortunately Waygal is still under control of the Taliban.". We look forward to the Ministry of the Interior to give us. We did not act to take back after it collapsed, "he says.

Violence also continued in other parts of the Afghanistan. NATO said Tuesday that three of its service members were killed by bombs, a Tuesday, in the East and two Monday in the South. France confirmed one of the soldiers was French, and the other two were Romanian, said their Government. Seven NATO soldiers died this month, and 158 had been killed since the beginning of the year.

In the southern province of Zabul, the Afghan Defence Ministry said one of its commando units killed five insurgents, including two Pakistani. He also said two foreign armed, a French and a Moroccan were held "with ammunition, weapons, military equipment and letters of propaganda."

He provided no other information on both foreigners.

In the East of the Paktika, Office of the provincial Governor said six insurgents were killed and another eight captured in the operation of the Afghan police.

Us, NATO: Ben Laden death would end Afghan mission (AP)

Kabul (Afghanistan) - US officials and NATO has sought to reassure the Afghan people Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden does weaken their mission in Afghanistan, while the Afghan President, said the strike with success in performances in Pakistan that the fight against terrorism should focus more outside the borders of his country.

The contradictory statements highlighted the nature creates confusion of the war in Afghanistan, where Afghans Chafe under alternately and need international forces.

When he decided to expand the U.S. military force in Afghanistan in 2009, President Barack Obama said the aim was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda" - a goal some might say has been fulfilled by the death of its leader.

Now, it is not endangered that Ben Laden means for the future of the Afghanistan, where about 150,000 soldiers of the NATO - most of them American - are embedded in daily fighting with Taliban insurgents. On Saturday, the Taliban announced the start of their offensive in the spring after showing their strength with a string of murderous Government attacks and military compounds.

Bin Laden and his international al-Qaida terror network were allied with the Taliban, but the Afghan militants existed on their own long before and operate in a way largely independent and death of the leader of al-Qaida may have little effect on their battle against the Afghan Government.

For his part, President Hamid Karzai, leased the death of Osama bin Laden as a serious blow to terrorism.

"US forces have killed Osama bin Laden, offer him his sentence due," Karzai told an assembly of representatives of the Government district in Kabul, prompting the room erupted in applause.

But Karzai has also used his speech to punish the international forces to concentrate a large part of their military effort in Afghanistan, rather than in neighbouring countries in Pakistan, where live would have been al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

"For years we have said that the fight against terrorism is not in the houses and the Afghan villages. "At shelters and today, which proved true", said Karzai. "Stop bomb Afghan villages and the search for the Afghan people."

Although Karzai channels popular anger against the international forces, which sometimes kill civilians in their operations, he could not pronounce without their support. Without these international allies, the country might well fall into civil war.

Karl Eikenberry Ambassador of the United States and NATO have quickly because the Afghans promising statements that US forces would not abandon the country, while bin Laden was dead.

Many Afghans, however, expressed little concern that the death of Saudi activist of 54 years would mean the end of the international mission, where American troops are deeply mired.

"The Afghanistan is a very strategic location for U.S. troops." They want to be present in this region, they discuss having permanent bases, "said Abdul Satar Kahawsi, a member of the Eastern province of Parwan.

Kahawsi said that some Afghans believe even that July announced the troops collecting will be really important because of the proximity of the Afghanistan in Pakistan and Iran.

One of the effects of the death of Osama bin Laden could be a desire increased Taliban to reconcile with the Government, suggested some Afghans.

"I think that now the Taliban will be free to make their own decision, and perhaps these peace negotiations will be finally some success." They are also afghans and we can not fight with them for always, said Agha Lalai, Member of the Council of Government for Southern Kandahar province.

An elderly man in the city of Kandahar, which said he brought bin Laden came when he said that the al-Qaeda Chief manipulated the Taliban and soon took control the organization.

"All power belonged to bin Laden and Mullah Omar was just a front, said Ahmad Sarhadi at his home in Kandahar." He was referring to the blind recluse leader of the Taliban.

With bin Laden, his moral authority and his die-hard views against any type of reconciliation disappeared, thinking goes, the Taliban may be ready to break the international network of terror.

Former Presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah, said however, those who celebrate the disappearance of Osama bin Laden as the end of the conflict in Afghanistan have been speaking very prematurely.

"There are now several terrorist networks and the Taliban will not surrender." They do not believe in participating in a democratic system, but rather that they hope to bring down, therefore it will not have an impact on reconciliation in this title, "he says.

The Taliban, for their part, said that they were not discouraged. A commander at the level of the province for the insurgent group said Associated Press that while the death of bin Laden is a loss, other leaders of al-Qaida existed which could take its place. The Commander, who spoke anonymously because it was not a spokesman, said that revenge attacks have been planned.

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Nine Americans methodically killed by Afghan driver

An Afghan Air Corps pilot, angered by a dispute with nine us trainers at the Kabul airport, fired from a gun on the Americans, disarmed and methodically killed, officials said today.

The shooter then apparently shot and killed himself.

The Afghan army, said that the shooter was a 20 year veteran of the Afghan Air Corps who had already obtained in an argument with American trainers at a meeting in a conference room at the headquarters of the Afghan Air Force.

A U.S. official told ABC News, they believe the driver have left the meeting after the argument, then returned and forced the Americans to remove their weapons before their shooting with a provided American M9 semiautomatic weapon.

"After the shooting began, we have seen a number of Afghan army officers and soldiers of the building running." Some have even themselves cast out of Windows to escape, ", said the spokesman for the Afghan Air Corps colonel Bahader."

A rapid reaction force arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting and found the gunman dead. Officials believe that the gunman committed suicide.

The dead include eight members of U.S. military personnel and an American contractor. Five Afghan soldiers were also injured in the shooting, said Bahader.

It is the most deadly incident so far of an Afghan ally turn against its coalition partners, said responsible. It is the seventh time this year that the coalition troops or Afghan security forces were killed by two members of the force of Afghan security or insurgents posing as them.

The Taliban claimed that the shooter was an insurgent who pass for an agent to access the secure area. Spokesman of the Taliban that zabiullah Mujahid said the spoofed shooter officer and obtained access to the facility with other people who work.

The Taliban were known to take credit for that they are not connected to attacks, and the Ministry of defence spokesman Afghan General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said the shooter worked "for 20 years, the Afghan Air Force flight" and was not an insurgent.

"An argument that is passed between him and foreigners, and we have to study that," Azimi said.

An Afghan driver who request not to be named, said the shooter Ahmad Gul of 50 years of Tarakhail district of Kabul province.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the violence and ordered its defence and security officials to investigate the causes of the recent incidents.

Other Incidents:

18 April - one insurgent killed two Afghan soldiers and an officer in the Afghan Defence Ministry.

April 16 - Afghan American troops of Six, four soldiers and an interpreter are killed when an Afghan soldier detonates an explosive vest at Forward Operating Base Gamberi in Laghman.

April 15: a suicide bomber posing as a police officer explodes himself within complex Kandahar police prefecture, killing the right top enforcement official in the southern province.

April 4-two American military personnel is shot and killed by a man wearing a uniform of Afghan border police.

February - an Afghan soldier shoots nine German soldiers, killing three and wounding six.

January - an Italian soldier was killed and another injured after an Afghan soldier opens fire on them.

Afghan Taliban escaped Recapture 65

 The massive security breach that allowed the Taliban to mind more than 480 afghans held at the largest prison in the South of the Afghanistan must have involved inside employees, Department of Justice said Tuesday, as security forces worked to reclaim escaped convicts.

Officials discovered Monday morning prison inmates - almost all activists Taliban - were absent from their cells and then found the tunnel through which they seemed to have made their getaway.

The Taliban, said the prison break of five months in the making, with diggers from the tunnel under a nearby House, while they took provisions for detainees receive keys so that they can open their cells during the night of the escape.

Government officials have begun to exhibit through the details of the escape Tuesday and blame the place. Minister of justice Habibullah Ghalib has sent an official letter to President Hamid Karzai recognizing that prison or likely guards officials acted as accomplices, but also said that Afghan and international security forces should have detected the story.

"Escape all prisoners tunnel... shows that the contributors inside the prison provided little opportunity," Ghalib said in the letter.

However, he also noted that Afghan police searched the compound which the tunnel were originating months approximately two years and a half before the break from prison and he said that the Canadian and American forces were responsible for the improvement of prison security. A full investigation is underway.

An intelligence officer who is involved in the investigation, General Tahir Mohmand, said they had warned the prison officials a number of times recently that they had reports that the Taliban provided a sort of operation involving prison.

"We had a few clues that the Taliban were occupied in a sort of plan to get their prisoners out," he said.

Details came from those who were captured.

Jan Samiullah, who had served 13 months of a sentence of 14 months, said he was awakened at midnight and escorted from the tunnel, which was lit and even had a pipe crossing that they were told pushed oxygen to help them breathe.

"When we are out of the tunnel they let us go and said ' now you can go.". Go where you want. "I moved around a bit, but I had not any place to go, and the soldiers are then me,"said Jan. He spoke of his cell at the detention Centre of the Agency of intelligence in Kandahar.

Office of the provincial Governor of Kandahar said troops have already taken 71 of those who escaped and two killed attempting to resist. The authorities have given biometric on each prisoner, which facilitates their identification, the Office of the Governor said.

But, even if a number of convicted prisoners is resumed, already weak provincial government is still under the blow to its image.

The escape from prison have also been less than two weeks after the police Chief of Kandahar was killed by a suicide attack inside his heavily defended compound Office.

"How can we trust or rely on a Government that can't protect the Chief of police in the police headquarters and cannot be the prisoners of the prison?" asked Islamullah Agha Bachir, who sells washing machines and other devices in the city of Kandahar. "Last night while we were eating dinner I told my two sons did not leave as much because I fear that when the Taliban morale is high, they attack more."

The Afghan Taliban declares the beginning of the spring offensive (Reuters)

the Taliban declared the beginning of a spring offensive, on Saturday they were targeting foreign troops in Afghanistan in custody and the forces of Afghan security and representatives of the Government in a wave of attacks across the country.

In a statement, the Islamic radicals warned Afghan civilians to stay away from public gatherings, of military bases and convoys, as well as the Government Afghan centres, as it would be the object of attacks.

The Taliban statement comes a day after senior military officials and Western diplomats warned that they expected a surge in attacks by militants in the next week.

"Operations will focus on attacks against the military centres, places of gatherings, air bases, ammunition and logistical military convoys of foreign invaders from all regions of the country," the Taliban said in the statement.

Senior military officials said Friday recent intelligence reports indicated that the attacks planned by the Taliban, the Haqqani network linked to al-Qaeda and other insurgents, backed include suicide attacks.

Two senior commanders coalition said that they have planned that increased violence campaign would last about a week.

Washington and commanders of the-led NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have trumpeted success against a growing insurgency since 30,000 additional U.S. troops were sent to Afghanistan last year.

The statement of the Taliban, said the target of an operation, he called "Attachés" would be foreign forces, senior officials of the Government of President Hamid Karzai, cabinet members and legislators, and the heads of foreign and local companies working for the NATO-led coalition.

"All Afghans should not forget to keep away from the rallies, convoys and the centres of the enemy, so that they will be step bound fate of Mujahedin attacks against the enemy," said the Taliban.

Senior commanders have planned since long a spike in violence with the arrival of spring and summer "fighting season", although the usual lull of winter was not seen as forces led by the United States pressed their attack on insurgents, particularly in southern heartland of the Taliban.

Violence through the Afghanistan reached record levels in 2010, with civilian and military losses worse since U.S. backed by Afghan forces ousted the Taliban late 2001 Government.

The Pentagon said in a semi-annual report on Friday an overall increase of violence was due in part to a targeting increased insurgent safe havens and the unusually mild winter weather.