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Gunmen kill former Taliban spokesman
By AMIR SHAH,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 34 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan - A convoy of foreign troops shot at a vehicle in the capital's outskirts Friday, killing a civilian, officials said.
The convoy was passing through the road which links Kabul to Jalalabad, east of the capital, when its members fired on a civilian vehicle, said Ayub Salangi, Kabul's police chief.
A civilian was killed and three others were wounded, said Zemarai Bashary, an Interior Ministry spokesman.
It was not clear why the convoy fired on the vehicle, Bashary said.
There have been numerous incidents when NATO and U.S. troops fire on civilian vehicles, fearing they are suicide attackers trying to ram their convoys.
But the deaths of civilians at the hands of foreign troops only add to the growing frustration, which is increasingly voiced by President Hamid Karzai.
Such deaths undermine the confidence of the people in over 60,000 foreign troops in the country supporting Karzai's government.
In eastern Afghanistan, meanwhile, gunmen wearing Afghan army uniforms killed a former Taliban spokesman, an official said Friday.
About a dozen assailants used a ladder to scale a fort in the eastern Chaparhar where the former spokesman, Mohammad Hanif, was living with his father-in-law after being released from Afghan custody, said Sayed Mohammad, a district chief.
Once inside the compound they killed Hanif and three other people, Mohammad said. He could not say who was behind the killing.
Hanif was arrested by Afghan intelligence agents in January of 2007. He was released from custody six months ago.
Afghanistan's intelligence service later distributed a video CD of what it said was Hanif claiming that Pakistani intelligence was helping to hide Taliban leader Mullah Omar inside Pakistan _ a charge denied by Pakistan.
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Associated Press writer Fisnik Abrashi in Kabul contributed to this report.
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