Troops from the NATO 6 killed in attack at Afghanistan (PA) (Yahoo!)

By HEIDI VOGT and MIRWAIS KHAN, Associated Press Heidi Vogt and Mirwais Khan, Associated Press - ago hours 3 mins

Kabul, Afghanistan - a suicide attacker blew a minibus packed with explosives near the doors of a military base in the South of the Afghanistan Sunday, killing six and two Afghan soldiers, NATO troops responsible for said.

Said Afghan officials that the attack took place in Zhari district of Kandahar province where United States contributed troops this summer for a thrust forces to try to prevent the Taliban bastions of the South.

Abdul Hamid, the Afghan national army and head of the province, said that the attacker driving a minibus at the entrance of the base Sunday morning as vehicles were preparing to move a patrol.

"They were leaving the compound and at the same time, the minibus attacked and hit right at the entrance of the base," Hamid said.

Qari Yousuf Ahmadi Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, saying: the insurgent group was retaliation all attacks on them in the region in recent months.

Only NATO declared that service members were killed by rebel attack and declined to identify their nationality. Most of the troops from NATO in the South are American. International troops more than 670 killed so far this year, well above the 502 killed throughout 2009.

Attack on Sunday was the second incident in two weeks to kill so many members of the service. November 29, a sound activated Afghan police weapon its American trainers East, killing six of them until he was shot. The Taliban claimed that they had sent him to join the police as a sleeper agent. Prior to this, five American soldiers were killed insurgent attack on 14 November on their unity in the East of the Afghanistan.

Also Sunday, said NATO a joint force of NATO-Afghanistan killed a Taliban leader and captured a member key from another activist in the East.

Taliban leader participated in the smuggling of weapons and attacks in the Eastern province of Wardak, according to a statement. NATO he identified only by his surname, Fedahi.

NATO said two men threatened coalition that entry into compound Saturday evening where they had heard about Fedahi staying troops. They shot and killed two men, one was later identified as Fedahi, said the Declaration. Told civil steps were harmed in the operation.

Of a separate raid in the Eastern province of Khost Saturday night, troops from the NATO and the Afghanistan captured the Haqqani network leader, a Taliban faction based Pakistan linked to al-Qaeda.

Coalition troops boarded the insurgents in an enclosure in the said district of Terayzai, NATO. The prisoner, he said, led attacks bomb and ambushes against Afghan and coalition troops.