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Blast aimed at Afghan minister kills 4

6 foreign troops killed in attacks, storm

AP, AFP, Kabul
A suicide car bomb explosion targeting Afghanistan's energy minister killed four civilians yesterday, while attacks and a violent storm killed six international troops, including three French and two American forces, officials said.
Taliban assassination attempts against Afghan officials have intensified this year, with more than 100 officials and pro-government tribal elders attacked half of them fatally.
The convoy carrying Energy Minister Email Khan, a powerbroker in the western region of Herat, was headed to the airport when a suicide car bomb exploded outside a high school, said Raouf Ahmadi, a police spokesman. Ahmadi said four civilians died and 17 people were wounded, includ-ingfourof Khan's bodyguards.
He said Khan escaped
unharmed and arrived safely at the airport.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility and said the explosion targeted Khan, who was once governor of Herat, a western province bordering Iran.
The Taliban assassination campaign E a strong sign of deteriorating security in the country, where a record number of US and Nato troops have also died this year. The Obama administration is now debating whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan as its government faces allegations of widespread fraud from the disputed Aug. 20 presidential election.
Two US service members died Saturday in the country's south one from a roadside bomb explosion and the other from an insurgent attack, the Nato-led force said. A third Nato service member died
Sunday from a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan. No other details were released.
Elsewhere, three French soldiers died in a violent storm in northeastern Afghanistan late Saturday. One soldier was struck by lightning while two were swept away by a rain-swollen river during an operation in Kapisa province, said military spokesman Christophe Prazuck
This year has been the deadliest of the eight-year war for US and Nato troops. The latest six deaths bring to 64 the number of Natb troops killed this month.
Elsewhere in western Afghanistan, three Afghan civilians died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Farah province. Gen Mohammad Faqir Askir, Farah's police chief, said the vehicle had just turned off the main highway toward a village when the bomb exploded.