| The deputy intelligence director of troubled southeastern Khost province was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday, an official said. "The deputy intelligence director of Khost province, Mohammed Isa, was killed in a suicide attack by Taliban and al-Qaeda on Wednesday morning," Khost military division commander Khial Baz Khan told the news agency. "We are investigating the case." A spokesman for the ousted Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime claimed responsibility for the Khost attack minutes after it occurred. This is the third suicide attack in the past month in Afghanistan. On January 27 and 28 two suicide bombers targeted International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in Kabul, killing one British and one Canadian soldier and wounding more than a dozen others. |