AFGHANISTAN: AMERICAN SOLDIER KILLED IN ATTACK

Afghanistan: American Killed in Attack

By REUTERS

An American service member was killed by an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the NATO-led international force said. Two other service members, whose nationalities were not released, died in separate roadside bomb attacks in the south.

On Wednesday, Mohammad Gul, the police intelligence director for western Kabul, was ambushed and killed by gunmen outside his home as he returned from his office, the police said. One of his two bodyguards also was killed. Mr. Gul was in charge of preventing terrorist attacks and tracking down insurgents in the western quarter of the capital. (AP)