Roadside bomb kills 5 coalition soldiers in southern Afghanistan
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May 5, 2013, Sunday
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FIVE members of the US-led international military coalition were killed yesterday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against foreign troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week.
The coalition did not disclose the location of the blast or confirm the nationalities of those killed. However, Javeed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar Province, said a coalition patrol hit the roadside bomb in Maiwand district of the province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.
The renewed violence came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that his government has been receiving funds from CIA for more than a decade as part of regular monthly assistance from the US government.
Karzai told reporters at a news conference that the CIA's station chief in Kabul has assured him that regular funding the US intelligence agency gives his government will not be cut off.
Karzai had earlier confirmed that his government had received such payments following a story published in The New York Times that said the CIA had given the Afghan National Security Council tens of millions of dollars in monthly payments delivered in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags.
"The help and assistance from the US is for our National Directorate of Security. That is state-to-state, government-to-government regular assistance," Karzai said.
"So that is a government institution helping another government institution, and we appreciate all this assistance and help, all this assistance is very useful for us."
Karzai would not say how much assistance his government had received, said "receipts have been sent back to the intelligence service of the United States monthly."
The deaths of the five coalition service members on Saturday was the second deadly attack since the insurgency announced their new offensive on April 27. Three British soldiers were killed on April 30 when their armored vehicle hit a bomb in southern Helmand Province.
This year 47 members of the coalition have been killed.
The coalition did not disclose the location of the blast or confirm the nationalities of those killed. However, Javeed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar Province, said a coalition patrol hit the roadside bomb in Maiwand district of the province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.
The renewed violence came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that his government has been receiving funds from CIA for more than a decade as part of regular monthly assistance from the US government.
Karzai told reporters at a news conference that the CIA's station chief in Kabul has assured him that regular funding the US intelligence agency gives his government will not be cut off.
Karzai had earlier confirmed that his government had received such payments following a story published in The New York Times that said the CIA had given the Afghan National Security Council tens of millions of dollars in monthly payments delivered in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags.
"The help and assistance from the US is for our National Directorate of Security. That is state-to-state, government-to-government regular assistance," Karzai said.
"So that is a government institution helping another government institution, and we appreciate all this assistance and help, all this assistance is very useful for us."
Karzai would not say how much assistance his government had received, said "receipts have been sent back to the intelligence service of the United States monthly."
The deaths of the five coalition service members on Saturday was the second deadly attack since the insurgency announced their new offensive on April 27. Three British soldiers were killed on April 30 when their armored vehicle hit a bomb in southern Helmand Province.
This year 47 members of the coalition have been killed.
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