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Bombs kill Afghan child, NATO soldiers: military
Kabul (AFP) Oct 10, 2010 - Bombers targeted NATO troops in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing an Afghan child and two foreign soldiers in separate Taliban flashpoints, the military said. The US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said a car bomb exploded near one of its patrols in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing one Afghan child and wounding two others. The military said one ISAF vehicle was damaged in the attack, which occurred in Mando Zayi district of Khost province, which borders Pakistan's lawless tribal belt where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants are headquartered. Afghan district chief Wali Shah Himat told AFP that the car bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker.

"The blast injured a total of 17 people, including three children and three road construction guards. Five of the injured are members of the same family from a near by house, including a one-month-old child," he said. The official confirmed that NATO troops had evacuated three of the children for medical treatment. ISAF said separately that a bomb attack killed two soldiers in the south, the deadliest part of the country for Western troops locked in a nine-year war. The military no longer releases the nationalities of those killed in battle. Sunday's deaths took the number of foreign troops killed in 2010 to 574, according to a toll complied by AFP based on the independent Internet site icasualties.org. This year is already the deadliest so far in the conflict, which has killed more than 2,140 international soldiers since the 2001 US-led invasion to bring down the Taliban regime and replace it with a Western-backed administration.
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Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 10, 2010
NATO supplies through Pakistan's Torkham border crossing into Afghanistan resumed Sunday, 11 days after Islamabad closed the point in response to a deadly NATO air attack, officials said.

"The first convoy of more than a dozen vehicles left for Afghanistan this afternoon," customs official Mohammad Nawaz told AFP.

More vehicles loaded with supplies for NATO and US troops were ready to leave, he added.

Pakistan's foreign ministry on Saturday announced the reopening of the main land route for NATO supplies "with immediate effect".

US and NATO forces are fighting a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and the route is vital to the war effort.

The decision came after US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson on Wednesday apologised on behalf of the American people for the "terrible accident".

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Taliban claim attack on NATO supply convoy in Pakistan
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 10, 2010 - Pakistani Taliban on Sunday claimed responsibility for the latest attack on a NATO supply convoy in the southwest and vowed they would continue until US drone strikes are stopped.

"We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers in Sibi district on Saturday," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP.

"We will continue the attacks on NATO trucks and tankers until the drone strikes are stopped," he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.

Gunmen on Saturday torched at least 29 oil tankers in southwest Pakistan, the sixth attack in just over a week on vehicles carrying supplies for the 152,000-strong foreign forces fighting the Taliban-led insurgency.

Previous attacks have also been claimed by Taliban.

Two police officers were hurt in the attack in remote Mitri area of Sibi district, 180 kilometres (112 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Baluchistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.

"Some 30 gunmen attacked the tankers, which were parked outside a roadside hotel and opened fire early Saturday morning, injuring two local police officials," Abdul Mateen, a senior administration official in Mitri, told AFP.

Taliban militants have launched a string of attacks on NATO supply vehicles in Pakistan in the past week to avenge a new wave of US drone strikes targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in the country's lawless tribal region.

Pakistani authorities have reported 26 drone attacks since September 3 which have killed more than 140 people in the region, a hub for homegrown and foreign militants fighting in Afghanistan.

The strikes have been linked to a US plan to disrupt an alleged plot by extremists to launch Mumbai-style attacks in Europe.

Pakistan late Saturday announced it had decided to reopen the main land route for NATO supplies to Afghanistan and officials at the Torkham border in the northwest Khyber region said the vehicles would start leaving later Sunday.



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