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S) suicide bomber killed a
HSpnadian soldier and an
Ighan civilian Tuesday in an
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■ ‘‘I^TO-led security force
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"“^■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.
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the Taliban would be defeated.
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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,
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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. Most would be “green” and sim
ply go through routine screening.
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