Paratroops Killed In Taliban

Three British paratroopers were killed in Taliban attack on a patrol in southern Afghanistan, said on Friday that a number of international soldiers killed in the first week of August to 18 years.

NATO and the British government said that the soldiers, armored car powered by a roadside bomb north of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province on Thursday against the insurgents opened fire. Soldiers opened fire, but all three were killed.

These attacks killed at least 75 American soldiers and other international forces in July, the largest number of victims for one month starting in 2001, according to military reports.

Thousands of U.S. Marines have been in southern Afghanistan - in the center of the Taliban - in an attempt to ensure that combatants "and thus profit at the August 20 elections.

President Hamid Karzai, the prime candidate, his first major rally in the capital, on Friday, drawing thousands of admiring fans, many members of the minority Shia Muslim Hazaras.

Hazaras, that they have more than 10 percent of the population voted for Karzai in the last elections in the country. He Hazara court appointments in key ministries and other government agencies.

Karzai was on meeting the sides of heavily guarded by his two vice-presidential candidate, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, an ethnic Tajik commander was strong Northern Alliance that helped topple the Taliban regime in 2001, and the Hazara leader Karim Khalili, is currently second vice-president.

Karzai has always been the inevitable winner, but Abdullah Abdullah, former foreign minister, Karzai has a big problem, and seemed to have been closed for at least part of the gap in the campaign, the focus of government mismanagement, corruption and growing violence.

NATO Secretary General said that NATO troops in Afghanistan when the mission successfully.

The Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the BBC that NATO is in Afghanistan, success in combating the insurgency of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, already this summer at the level of troops in the region increased.

U.S. officials said that commanders may have more troops available for a full report on how the war in Afghanistan.

Afghan officials said roadside bombs killed five Afghan policemen and one security guard in the south, in the heart of Taliban-led insurgency, where thousands of dollars - and British troops are trying to roads and settlements up to the presidential election held on August 20.

The rebels took to derail the vote and a sharp increase in the use of roadside bombs against Afghan and foreign troops.

The police were killed when their vehicle hit a bomb buried in the Arghandab district of Kandahar late Friday, said Abdul Jabar, head of the district.

Another explosion on Friday in the Zhari district of Kandahar killed one Afghan guard escorting a convoy of NATO's supplies, said Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi, the local official. Four more guards were wounded, he said.

A AirStrike in Zabul, another southern province, killing three militants, suspected to have set the bomb on the road Thursday, said Ghulam Jelani Farahi, Zabul deputy police chief of the province.