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A suspected Taliban suicide attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into an armored vehicle carrying British government officials Sunday in southern Afghanistan, wounding four of them, a U.S.-led coalition commander said.
The assault underscored the terrorist threat still facing Afghanistan as it slowly moves toward democracy.
The four Britons were traveling in an armored Land Cruiser in Kandahar, a former stronghold of the Taliban, when they were attacked by a suicide bomber in a Toyota Corolla, said Col. Steve Bowes, a Canadian commander with the coalition. The Britons’ vehicle burned.
