Kabul
Foreign terrorists, not the Taliban, were responsible for a suicide attack on German peacekeepers, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said this week. Four Germans and one Afghan were killed and dozens of people wounded when a bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a German military convoy. Karzai said the bomber was almost certainly “not from Afghanistan.” Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali blamed the attack on al Qaida remnants hiding in Pakistan. He called on Pakistan to go after the “terrorist centers” that sprang up in Pakistani territory near the Afghan border after the Taliban was ousted.
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