A ROADSIDE BOMB KILLED TWO U.S.-LED COALITION SOLDIERS ON PATROL IN AFGHANISTAN, AND A TEENAGE TALIBAN SUICIDE CAR BOMBER DIED RAMMING HIS TAXI INTO A COALITION CONVOY ON TUESDAY, WOUNDING THREE COALITION TROOPS. ANOTHER ROADSIDE BOMB KILLED TWO AFGHAN SOLDIERS AND WOUNDED FOUR OTHERS IN EASTERN KUNAR PROVINCE, GENERAL ZAHIR WARDAK, A COMMANDER IN THE REGION, TOLD REUTERS. THE CAR BOMBER STRUCK THE COMBAT PATROL JUST 15 KM (10 MILES) NORTH OF CAMP SALERNO, THE COALITION'S MAIN BASE IN KHOST, A SMALL MOUNTAINOUS PROVINCE BORDERING PAKISTAN'S MILITANT INFESTED TRIBAL REGION OF NORTH WAZIRISTAN. "THE SUICIDE ATTACKER WAS A TEENAGER. HE WAS WEARING NEW CLOTHES, WHICH IS THE SIGN HE WAS DRESSED FOR THE GRAVE," SAID RAHMAT SHAH, A VILLAGER WHO WITNESSED THE ATTACK. NONE OF THE COALITION SOLDIERS SUFFERED LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES, BUT A PATROL IN NANGAHAR, ANOTHER EASTERN PROVINCE, WAS LESS FORTUNATE WHEN IT STRUCK A ROADSIDE BOMB. TWO COALITION SOLDIERS WERE KILLED, AND ANOTHER WAS WOUNDED ALONG WITH AN AFGHAN INTERPRETER TRAVELLING WITH THEM IN A HUMVEE, WHILE OUT ON PATROL IN KHOGYANI DISTRICT OF NANGAHAR, A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE U.S. MILITARY SAID. "THEIR VEHICLE WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED, I CAN STILL SEE SMOKE RISING FROM THE WRECK," QARI ISMATULLAH, A RESIDENT OF KHOGYANI DISTRICT, TOLD REUTERS. SEPARATELY ON TUESDAY, THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND EIGHT WOUNDED WHEN EXPLOSIVES BEING FIXED TO A MOTORCYCLE BLEW UP IN A MADRASA IN GHAZNI IN SOUTHEAST AFGHANISTAN, A SENIOR PROVINCIAL OFFICIAL SAID. THE HEAD OF THE MADRASA AND THE WOUNDED, INCLUDING THE BOMBER, WERE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF PLANNING ATTACKS.
