Bombs hidden in fruit carts exploded at two sepaarate security checkpoints in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, killing four and injuring 23.
U.S. and Afghan National Army troops traded gunfire with rebels near Daychopan , Afghanistan, killing five and capturing seven. One Afghan soldier was wounded.
In Afghanistan, a bomb planted in a minibus carrying workers to voter registration sites from Jalalabad to the Shinwar district exploded, killing two Afghani U.N. election workers, and injuring three. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi claimed responsibility. The driver left the vehicle just before the explosion. He was caught by police shortly thereafter.
Seven rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a U.S. military base in Khost, Afghanistan, slightly wounding two soldiers and three Afghan interpreters.
In the Surkh Sang area of Arghandab district of Zabul province, Afghanistan, rebels kidnapped and beheaded an Afghan interpreter, prompting U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan National Army soldiers to clash with the rebels, killing four of them. Naimatullah Khan , corps commander of southeastern Zabul province, initially stated that the Afghan soldiers avenged the interpreter's murder by beheaded the four rebels, but later retracted the statement. Three rebels were arrested.
Scores of rebels attacked a government office in Mizan , Zabul province, Afghanistan, killing two Afghan National Army soldiers and wounding three during the two-hour exchange. Five attackers also died.
In Kabul, Afghanistan, a group of 100 protesters led by Mahfooz Nedaye and Sayed Abdul Hadi called for the resignation of Hamid Karzai on the grounds that his term of office had expired under the terms of the Bonn Agreement.
In Kunduz province, Afghanistan, police chief Mutaleb Beg announced that two suspects were detained in connection with the previous day's massacre of Chinese aid workers.
In the Bak district of Khost province, Afghanistan, a U.S. encountered three roadside bombs; one discharged. There were no casualties.
Eleven Chinese aid workers from Jiangxi province were killed in their compound by a score of armed men in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and another six were wounded. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi stated the Taliban were not involved.
U.S.-led coalition troops swept portions of Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, capturing a score of insurgents and killing eight.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces completed a week-long operation in the Daychopan district of Zabul province, Afghanistan. Through the course of the operation, 73 rebel fighters were killed and 13 captured. Six Afghan government forces and four coalition soldiers were wounded, and none killed.
A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded after their vehicle hit a landmine in southeastern Afghanistan. They were taken to Kandahar airfield hospital where the one soldier died.
U.S. warplanes pounded dozens of insurgents hiding in caves near Tirin Kot , Afghanistan.
In Qalay-e Naw , Badghis province, Afghanistan, a grenade was tossed over the wall of the compound housing the Italian relief group Alisei . A vehicle and a water tank were damaged, but no one was injured.
Afghans Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah , Belgian Helene de Beir , NorwegianEgil Tynaes, and Dutchman Willem Kwint , all workers for Doctors Without Borders killed in an ambush near Khair Khana in Badghis province. They were the first ever fatalities for the group. Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi , a spokesman for the Taliban, took responsibility for the attack.
U.S. and Afghan troops backed by U.S. warplanes fought rebels in the mountains in the Miana Shien district of Kandahar province, killing 13 rebels and arresting eight. Two U.S. troops and one Afghan National Army soldier were wounded.
