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Gunmen kill former Taliban spokesman
By AMIR SHAH,Associated Press Writer AP - 53 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan - A convoy of foreign troops shot at a vehicle in the Afghan capital's outskirts Friday, killing two civilians, a police official said.
The convoy was traveling on the road that links Kabul to Jalalabad, east of the capital, when its members fired at a civilian vehicle, said Ayub Salangi, Kabul's police chief.
NATO-led force denied that its troops fired on the vehicle.
Two civilians were wounded in addition to those who were killed, said district police Chief Mohammad Zia Mohammadi. One of the dead was a 5-year-old child.
The military alliance said its troops went to the area after a foreign contractor was involved in a car accident.
"On their arrival, the patrol found a large crowd surrounding the contractors' vehicles," the NATO statement said. "It can be confirmed that no personnel in this patrol discharged their weapon during the incident."
After the incident, about 100 people blocked the road and threw rocks at police while shouting anti-U.S. slogans near the place where the shooting occurred, said Mohammad Ajmal, a resident of the area.
There have been numerous incidents in which NATO and U.S. troops have fired on civilian vehicles, fearing they were suicide attackers trying to ram their convoys.
President Hamid Karzai has expressed increasing frustration over the deaths of civilians at the hands of foreign troops in the country to support his government.
In eastern Afghanistan, meanwhile, gunmen wearing Afghan army uniforms killed a former Taliban spokesman, said Sayed Mohammad, a district chief.
About a dozen assailants used a ladder to scale a fort in Chaparhar where the former spokesman, Mohammad Hanif, was living with his father-in-law after being released from Afghan custody, the official said Friday.
Once inside the compound they killed Hanif and three other people, Mohammad said. He could not say who was behind the killings.
Hanif was arrested by Afghan intelligence agents in January 2007 and 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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