Kabul, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb killed two soldiers from NATO and a gunman shot and killed a peace Council local official in the South of the Afghanistan where thousands of Afghan and international troops are preparing they to a resurgence of spring expected Taliban attacks, officials said Sunday.
The coalition stated that the service members were killed on Saturday. He did not provide additional details, or nationalities of the troops.
Earlier, NATO reported that a third service outside member died Saturday, when a coalition helicopter crashed in the province of Kapisa Alasay district to the East.
The death of 133 killed three litters the number of soldiers from NATO in Afghanistan so far this year.
Also the Ministry of the Interior in the South, a gunman assassinated Abdul Zahir, Helmand provincial deputy of the Council of peace and former top civilian leader in Marjah district, late Saturday in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gahsaid Sunday. Zahir was also a member of the Council for the local improvement area and key members of the Alizai tribe.
Appointment of Zahir Marjah district at the beginning Chief last year became controversial when folders and reports in Germany showed that Zahir was used as a framework more four years imprisonment for news attempted manslaughter for stabbing his son in 1998. A U.S. official confirmed that Zahir had a criminal record in Germany, but Zahir refused ever to spend time in a German prison.
His record was involved, because at the time, he was the man responsible for convincing the inhabitants of Marjah the central Afghan Government could better provide for them than the Taliban. Afghan and coalition forces launched a major offensive in Marjah in February 2010 in the rout of the insurgents from their strongholds in Helmand. Later, Zahir was named the face of a new local government - a key to the strategy of fight test against insurgencies of NATO.
NATO also confirmed Sunday that Afghan and coalition forces killed three leaders of the Haqqani network, a group of insurgents with close ties to al-Qaeda that operates primarily in the provinces of Paktika, Paktia and Khost. So far this year, more than 15 leaders Haqqani and over 130 other insurgents affiliated with the network have been captured or killed.
More than 90 prisoners were taken in Khost province, where the three is died Friday.
Among those killed was Salih Khan, a leader of Haqqani in Nadir Shah Kot district. According to the coalition, he formed the bomb, orchestrated car bomb attacks and handled logistics and communications for the insurgents in the region. In the past week, led Khan 20 fighters in two attacks on the coalition of advanced base operations, said coalition.
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