Suicide Bomb Attack Kills Afghan Deputy Chief of Intelligence

U.S. soldiers stand guard at the location of a suicide bomb attack in Mehterlam, capital of Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday (2 / 9) that killed deputy intelligence chief of Afghanistan.

Taliban suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Afghan deputy intelligence chief, who visited a mosque in Kabul, Wednesday (2 / 9), killing 22 officials and other people.
The attack took place in the office of Afghanistan's intelligence service center, which shows that the Taliban's ability to launch more powerful attacks with strategic goals.

The blast hit a crowd of people in Laghman province at the time officials had just left the main mosque in Mehterlam, 100 kilometers east of Kabul. Two key officials of Laghman province was also killed in the incident of death, and the blast destroyed several government vehicles.

National Security Directorate (NDS) comes from Afghanistan's ethnic Tajik while the bombers came from Pashtun tribes. This can again exacerbate ethnic tensions in the country tegah calculate the results of presidential election August 20. With approximately half of which was signed, President Hamid Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun, beat Abdullah Abdullah, the ethnic mix of Pashtun and Tajik, but considered as a candidate Tajik.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attack was carried out a suicide car bomber who was a member of the group.

An eyewitness in the city saw a pickup truck carrying people who are injured and bleeding. Eight ambulances headed toward Jalalabad, the nearest big city to the scene.

One police source said, the Governor Lutfullah Nashal Laghman province also injured, but the governor's spokesman could not confirm the news.

U.S. forces closed the site of the explosion, just outside the main mosque Mehterland, which is located in a crowded market area. According to Safi, Laghmani visited the mosque to discuss the rebuilding plans mosque.

Denial of Taliban suicide attacks are now often aimed at the high-level government officials.

In other violence, four militants were killed when a roadside bomb exploded their pairs, said Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, deputy police chief of Kandahar.