3 German Soldiers, At Least 37 Afghanis Killed in War Attacks, June 23m 2009

3 German Soldiers, At Least 37 Afghanis Killed in War Attacks

June 23m 2009

Wave of attacks as Obama aide assesses Afghanistan plan

June 23, 2009

KABUL (AFP) –

Fresh war attacks in Afghanistan killed 20 people while three German troops died in an accident Tuesday, authorities said, as the US national security adviser visited to assess a new plan to fight Taliban fighters.

The multinational NATO-led force in which the German troops serve said they had died in an accident after coming under attack near the northern town of Kunduz.

"They had left the scene and their vehicle was involved in a rollover and they died," ISAF spokesman Lieutenant Commander Chris Hall told AFP.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

Taliban fighters also said they had carried out a suicide car bombing targeted at a US-led military convoy in the eastern province of Ghazni early Tuesday which killed two passers-by.

Elsewhere in Ghazni, Taliban fighters ambushed a police convoy, killing a policeman, provincial spokesman Ismail Jahangir told AFP.

In another attack which police blamed on Taliban fighters, three Afghan aid workers were killed in a roadside bombing in the northern province of Jawzjan.

Elsewhere, another blast killed three policeman just outside the southern city of Kandahar, provincial police chief Mutaihullah Khan Qateh said.

The Afghan army meanwhile reported a major clash in the southwestern province of Farah late Monday which left nine Taliban fighters and two Afghan troops dead.

US security adviser James Jones arrived in Kabul on Monday tasked with following up on the implementation of the strategy, which is seeing 21,000 US reinforcements deploy into the main battlefields in southern Afghanistan.

He met US General Stanley McChrystal, who took command a week ago of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and was given an "overview of how we view the current situation," spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory J. Smith told AFP.

The briefing also covered US-led efforts to build the Afghan security forces, he said.

Jones later held talks with President Hamid Karzai including on how to put in place the Obama plan, a presidential spokesman said.

"We have seen the strategy and we fully endorse this strategy but we have to move towards implementation," spokesman Homayun Hamidzada told AFP.

He said that US troops would work to ensure security, ahead of the elections, in about 11 districts where Taliban are said to have control.

"We will try to bring appropriate force levels to any area that is insecure so we can have a democratic process that we all want the Afghans to be able to benefit from," Jones said.

He is due to continue his visit in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday and was also expected to travel to neighbouring Pakistan, under pressure to crack down on militant sanctuaries that feed the insurgency here, as well as India.

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