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IE BATTALION Wednesday, January 28, 2004 ros |uicide bomber kills Canadian peacekeeper, civilian in Kabul ally since i last ye* _ m By Amir Shah THE ASSOCIATED PRESS o ser • the )oki( he te typic - m de ’olv p in the n: on. Coin ihe final: —Jl KABt : L, Afghanistan — A S) suicide bomber killed a HSpnadian soldier and an Ighan civilian Tuesday in an ■ 5£ alack on a convoy of the ■ ‘‘I^TO-led security force j patrolling Kabul. The Taliban m '‘'claiined responsibility. "“^■jThe soldier was the first for- I m victim of a fresh wave of I ilence that has claimed more man Ph#n 60 lives this month. The at ack came a day after I ghanistan’s president signed th; country’s first post-Taliban Institution into law. ■ Three other Canadian troops Id eight civilians, including a lenchman, were wounded in the attack on a three-jeep con- ly on a main road in the west ■ the city. ■ It. Col. Don Denne, a Inadian commander of the security force, said the attacker pv himself up as a jeep bwed down to negotiate a It in the road, peppering w soldiers and bystanders ■th shrapnel. ■ Denne told reporters the m n appeared to have detonat- ■ artillery or mortar rounds stiapped to his body — a tactic pi viously unknown in Afghanistan. Only his severed ■ad and legs were found. ■ Mullah Hakim Latifi, a Tliban spokesman who con tacted The Associated Press by satellite telephone, said the at ;ck was the start of a cam paign of suicide bombings that ickupsirfwill be continued until the Patnc* cc ilition forces leave our coun- try.” He identified the bomber ThatvM 22-year-old Hafiz Abdullah m Khost province. Afghan President Hamid rzai condemned the attack. TURKMX.UZBK.i TAJ Suicide bomb killed one Canadian soldier AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN 0 100 ml , ' 0 100 km ' not Simula::! ‘enses n it on terrorist ments intent on disrupting the peace and security of our people." U-S- Ambassador Zalmay vo •^'■halilzad said the attack oftensnmhowed how desperate the jpon, | e rorists are as Afghanistan Bakes progress” and vowed the Taliban would be defeated. I “There is no doubt in my Bind that history is not on their side,” he said. 1 s. lha it is. lomeland Security says ^Mandatory background decks starting soon B/VASHINGTON — Homeland Security officials fay a government plan to check all airline pas sengers’ backgrounds before they board a plane Cculd be implemented by this summer. I fs such an urgent priority that the government w I order airlines to provide background infor- iation on their customers to test the program, lomeland Security Undersecretary Asa p itchinson said Monday. In an interview with The Associated Press, SOURCES; Associated Press; ESRI AP At NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer condemned the attack and pledged it would not deter the alliance’s peacekeep ing mission. “The attack on these sol diers was a shameful act, but it will not detract from our com mitment to help Afghanistan build a better, more hopeful future,” Scheffer said. International troops and local police cordoned off the site of the attack, about a mile from the main Canadian base in Kabul and close to the ruins of a former royal palace. An open-backed military jeep — badly burned and with its windows blown out — sat on a patch of blackened road, a white sheet lying next to it. A small Canadian flag hung from its antenna. The dead soldier was identi fied as CpI. Jamie Brendan Murphy, 26, of Conception Harbour, Newfoundland. The wounded were Lt. Jason Matthew Feyko, 30, of Bethany, Ontario; Cpl. Jeremy Gerald MacDonald, 30, of Burnt Islands, Newfoundland; and Cpl. Richard Michael Newman, 23, of Hartland, New Brunswick. Fazel Karim Sayedi, direc tor of the hospital that treated most of the wounded, said the 20-year-old Afghan civilian died of abdominal injuries. Two other wounded civilians were in serious condition. Afghan state television said the wounded Frenchman worked for the Asian Development Bank. Bank officials could not be reached for comment. The wounded Canadians were in stable condition. NEWS IN BRIEF said spokesman Lt. Col. Joerg Langer. At their main base in Afghanistan, Canadian soldiers hugged and comforted each other after the attack. Some of the troops said the attack was retaliation for a raid the Canadians carried out early last week with Kabul police, in which several suspected terror ists and alleged drug lords were apprehended. The raid was their first offensive action since arriving in Afghanistan last August as part of the NATO- led security force. Two years after the Taliban’s ouster, remnants of the hard-line regime, along with its al-Qaida allies and followers of Afghan war lord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar have been launching regular attacks against U.S. or interna tional forces, though suicide bombs are an unusual tactic in Afghanistan. The United Nations has warned landmark elections slated for June might be delayed because of poor securi ty and can only go ahead at all if the situation improves. In the latest clashes, three U.S. soldiers and three Marines were wounded in two separate incidents, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The soldiers were wounded Tuesday by gunfire and shrap nel during a clash near a U.S. base at Orgun, 105 miles south of Kabul in Paktika province. The Marines were hurt Monday by a bomb blast near Asadabad. the capital of Kunar province, 120 miles east of Kabul. About 2,000 Canadians serve in the security force, one of the largest contingents of peacekeepers in Afghanistan. In June, a suicide attack on a bus killed four German soldiers and wounded 29 in one of the worst post-Taliban attacks in the capital. Another apparent suicide bomber killed four Afghan intelligence agents and their driver on Dec. 28 after they arrested him near Kabul’s airport. A mine explosion killed two Canadian troops in October. Hutchinson said he wants to begin testing this spring. His spokesman, Dennis Murphy, said the plan could be fully operational by summer. The Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, would screen all passengers by checking that informa tion against commercial and government data bases. Each passenger would be given one of three color-coded ratings. Suspected terrorists or violent criminals would be designated “red” and forbidden to fly. Passengers who raised questions would be classified "yellow” and would receive extra secu rity screening. 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