KABUL,
September 8 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Four Afghani
policemen were killed and six were injured, Sunday September 7, in a
bomb explosion that hit a police station in downtown Kabul and coincided
with the U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld short visit to the
Afghani capital, Kabul.
A
bomb exploded Sunday evening in a police headquarters at Wazir Akbar
Khan in downtown Kabul, killing four policemen and injuring two,
according to Afghani news sources.
The
sources pointed that the severe explosion has led to the destruction of
the police station and several glass windows of adjacent houses.
The
Canadian forces working with Internal Stability and Assistance Forces
(ISAF) have besieged the area and started searching for perpetrators of
the attack, according to the same sources.
Meanwhile,
Rumsfeld has arrived in Afghanistan Sunday noon on a short visit, during
which he discussed with the Afghani President Hamid Karzai the increase
of U.S. assistance to Afghanistan.
In
another development, Dawlat Khan, a security official in Bactica
province, declared that a number of Taliban fighters had fired three
missiles against a U.S. forces headquarters in Zerok town, Bactica,
pointing out that two hit the headquarters, while the third missed it.
The attack resulted in no damages.
U.S.-supported
Afghani government forces fought with a number of Taliban fighters in
the region, leading to the death of three Taliban fighters.
Afghani
Shahadat newspaper reported in its issue of Monday,
September 8, that unknown people launched five missiles Sunday against
Gardez town, destroying a house without inflicting any casualties.
Five
Government Soldiers Killed
“Five
Afghani government soldiers have been killed Saturday September 6 in an
ambush prepared by Taliban fighters for a governmental patrol in
Shahwali Cot, South of Afghanistan,” Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted
the deputy military commander of Kandahar province General Seif Allah as
saying.
Afghani
news sources pointed out that the U.S.-Afghani operations against
Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are still underway in the southeast region
of Afghanistan, particularly in Bactica, as U.S. forces found Sunday
September 7 three weaponry warehouses and bombarded them.
“The
weapons found belonged to Moloy Galal El-Din Safany, a prominent Taliban
leader,” said a government official in Bactica province.
In
another development, Afghani government sources declared that three
Taliban leaders have been arrested after being injured in battles with
the government forces in Arbil.
Taliban
movement has called upon ex-field leaders and scholars in Bactia and
Bactica provinces to declare Jihad against U.S. forces and oust foreign
forces from Afghanistan.
Since
August 25th, around 1000 Afghani
soldiers, supported by hundreds of U.S. soldiers and aircraft, have
bombarded Taliban positions in Daishuban mountains in Zabul province,
northeast of Kandahar.