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The information I received from our police forces in the area said 36 people were killed and another 64 were wounded in the explosion, said police commander for the southern region Gholam Ali Wahdat.

It was one of the most serious bombings in Afghanistan in months. Ayoubi said the attack was near the offices of a privately owned road construction, not a humanitarian organization based Canadian CIDA, as reported previously.

According to witnesses, the attack was near a building housing the Afghan secret service. After the explosion they heard shooting and then the police and the army cordoned off the site. Ayoubi said most victims were civilians, since scores of civilian homes were destroyed by the attack, in the middle of the city who is presumed was carried out with a fire engine.

It is anticipated that the death toll rises after removing the debris. The force of the blast caused a burst kilometer several glass houses. The same day, spread the first results of the Afghan presidential elections, against the radical Islamist Taliban announced a boycott.

NEWS Chief died. The Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud died last Sunday after being seriously wounded during an attack by a pilotless aircraft (drone) in North America, told the BBC his successor as head of the movement Therik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP ) Hakimula Mehsud.

The man, who was a relative and a spokesman for Mehsud, days before he was elected to succeed the chief died, although no official confirmation, in a missile attack carried out by a plane U.S. pilotless August 5.

Hakimula Mehsud says According to British television and returned to the Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud was severely injured in the attack by U.S. aircraft and remained unconscious until Sunday, when he died.

NEWS deadliest year. The year 2009 is already the deadliest for foreign troops deployed in Afghanistan since late 2001, after four American soldiers from NATO were victimized by a bomb today, in a time when public opinion fewer and fewer Americans support the intervention.

When there are still four months to the end of the year, 295 foreign soldiers have died in China, compared to the 294 fatalities in all of 2008 According to the independent website icasualties.org.

Four U.S. soldiers from the NATO force (ISAF) were killed by a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, said the Atlantic alliance. The deaths come at a time when the strategy of U.S. President Barack Obama in Afghanistan is increasingly criticized in his country where public opinion is now overwhelmingly against war.

Americans make up the vast majority: 62,000 men, of the 100,000 foreign troops serving in Afghanistan. The south, particularly Helmand province (stronghold of the Taliban and producing 55% of world opium) is the most violent region of Afghanistan.

international and Afghan troops have carried out several months numerous operations, facing elections on Thursday, losing many of their men, most victims of homemade bombs.

According to icasualties.org, 63 foreign soldiers and 295 died in August, 172 of them Americans, from the beginning of 2009, up from 294 the year before, which was the deadliest so far.

The insurrection Taliban and other Islamist activists has intensified and expanded considerably in the last two years. The political problem threatens to intensify in the U.S., where Obama could decide soon on sending reinforcements to Afghanistan, although other recently deployed 21,000 troops on the ground.

Your new Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, should seek new recruits in the coming weeks, but this will clash with the wishes of Americans. Only a quarter of them approve sending more troops to Afghanistan, according to latest opinion polls also reveal a decline in the popularity of U.S. President.

Yesterday, a Democratic senator (the party of Obama) required for the first time a date for withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, also questioned the effectiveness of the reinforcements.

It's time to start the debate on a flexible schedule for people in the United States in Afghanistan and the world see that we intend to withdraw our troops, said Sen. Russell Feingold, adding that a withdrawal would not leave his country to pursue the group Islamist al Qaeda.

According to U.S. media, General McChrystal is studying three options: a high risk of requesting only 15,000 extra troops, a medium risk that would ask men and 25,000 new one of low risk to request the dispatch of 45,000 troops.

AFP, EFE, Reuters and AP