Former Taliban Leader Killed After Aiding U.S.-Backed Government
Gunmen killed a former Taliban leader who renounced the hard-line Islamic regime after it was ousted in late 2001 and had since supported Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government, witnesses said Saturday. A suicide car bomb, meanwhile, wounded an American soldier when it blew up near a U.S.-Afghan military convoy traveling along a main southern Afghan road, a local police chief said. Full Story