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by Mirwais Khan Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghani- stan — A bomb exploded Satur- day outside the provincial gover- nor’s office in the Afghan city of Kandahar, killing one policeman and wounding at least 14 civil- ians, officials said. The attack reflects deteriorat-
ing security in the largest city in the country’s volatile south — also the Taliban’s spiritual home — where NATO is preparing for a major operation seen as key to combating the insurgency. The governor, Tooryalai Wesa,was not in his office at the time. The bombing also comes a day
after a national peace conference in Kabul boosted President Ha- mid Karzai’s plans to seek negoti- ations with the Taliban in a bid to end the nearly nine-year war. Kandahar’s police chief, Sardar
Mohammad Zazai, said the explo- sives were strapped to a bicycle on the street outside the com- pound where the governor lives and works. The governor’s spokesman, Zel-
mai Ayubi, said the 14 wounded included five children. Four of the wounded were in critical condi- tion, he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but Taliban militants are the most likely suspects. The hard-line Islamist move- ment, ousted from power in 2001 but now a formidable militant force, says it will keep fighting. Its leaders say no talks are possible until foreign troops withdraw from the country — a step Karzai cannot afford with the insurgency raging. U.S. officials contend that the Taliban leadership feels it has little reason to negotiate because it believes it is winning the war. Karzai, who organized the con- ference — known as a “peace jir- ga” — that ended Friday, clearly got what he wanted from it: a mandate for his peace efforts and his government months after winning an election tainted by fraud. It also represented the first
Afghanistan war deaths
Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:
1,080 Fatalities
In
hostile actions:
In
non-hostile actions:
794 286
Tallies may be incomplete because of lags in reporting.
K Pfc. Christopher R. Barton, 22, of Concord, N.C.; 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Com- bat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based at Fort Campbell, Ky. Killed May 24 in Khost province.
K Sgt. Edwin Rivera, 28, of Waterford, Conn.; 1st Battalion, 102nd Infantry, Connecticut Army National Guard, based in Norwalk. Died May 25 at Na- tional Naval Medical Center in Beth- esda of wounds suffered May 20 at Contingency Outpost Xio Haq, Nanga- har province.
K Cpl. James C. Leicht, 24, of College Station, Tex.; 1st Light Armored Re- connaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Di- vision, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Killed May 27 in Helmand province.
K Pfc. Jake W. Suter, 18, of Los Ange- les; 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regi- ment, 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, based in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Killed May 29 in Helmand province.
K Lance Cpl. Anthony A. Dilisio, 20, of Macomb, Mich.; 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Divi- sion, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Killed May 30 in Helmand province.
K Spc. Jonathan K. Peney, 22, of Mari- etta, Ga.; 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, based at Hunter Army Air- field, Ga. Killed June 1 in Kandahar province.
All troops were killed in action in Afghanistan unless otherwise indicated.
Total fatalities include two civilian employees of the Defense Department. They also include service members killed in other locations involved in Operation Enduring Freedom, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Pakistan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; Uzbekistan; and Yemen.
A full list of casualties is available online at
www.washingtonpost.com/ nation.
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major public debate in Afghani- stan on how to end the war amid widespread belief here that the insurgency cannot be defeated militarily. “The one significance of the jir- ga is that for the first time, a col- lective and structured voice of Af- ghans for peace has been pre- sented to the government and to the international community,” said AhmadNader Nadery, a com- missioner with Afghanistan’s In- dependent Human Rights Com-
mission. U.S. State Department spokes-
man P.J. Crowley praised the jirga as providing “a national consen- sus to pursue a political strategy to reduce the danger posed by the insurgency.” While active militant leaders were not invited to the jir- ga in Kabul, some former Taliban and their sympathizers came. Many stay in contact with Taliban foot soldiers, who till their farms by day and lay roadside bombs by night.
Nadery said it’s these rank-and-
file Taliban who could be pressed by their communities to embrace the peace process, particularly if backed by government incen- tives. The jirga’s resolution calls for militants who join the peace proc- ess to be removed from a U.N. blacklist. The blacklist imposes travel and financial restrictions on about 137 people associated with the Taliban. The resolution also supports
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the release of Taliban prisoners in U.S. and Afghan custody — and Karzai promised to make that a priority as a goodwill gesture to the militants. But it says insurgents who want to take part must cut their ties with foreign terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. In other violence, two British soldiers were killed in a gun bat- tle with insurgents Friday in southern Helmand province, Brit- ain’sMinistry of Defense said Sat-
urday.
Also Saturday, dozens of angry residents blocked a highway from western Herat city to the Iran bor- der after a shooting involving NATO forces in which an Afghan civilian died and several others were arrested, police said.
Associated Press writers Kathy Gannon, Rohan Sullivan and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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