AN ATTACKER SLAMMED HIS EXPLOSIVES-LADEN CAR INTO A COALITION VEHICLE IN KANDAHAR, KILLING TWO CANADIAN SOLDIERS AND WOUNDING EIGHT OTHERS, OFFICIALS SAID. ANOTHER BOMBER, IN A SIMULTANEOUS ATTACK NEARBY, BLEW HIMSELF UP AND KILLED SIX AFGHANS. A PURPORTED TALIBAN SPOKESMAN CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR BOTH BLASTS SATURDAY AND WARNED OF MORE AS NATO PREPARES TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE VOLATILE SOUTHERN AFGHAN REGION. SEPARATELY, SUSPECTED TALIBAN FIGHTERS KILLED THREE AFGHAN POLICEMAN AND ONE CIVILIAN SATURDAY IN THE TOWN OF GELAN IN THE WESTERN GHAZNI PROVINCE, GEN. ALI AHMAD, DIRECTOR OF THE PROVINCIAL POLICE CRIMINAL DEPARTMENT, WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
