A suicide bomber killed the chief of police for northern Afghanistan and injured the German commander of international forces in the region on 28 May in the latest asymmetric attack by the Taliban. Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai reacted to the deaths of nine civilians in a NATO air strike on 28 May by demanding the alliance cease targeting houses as British and Afghan forces launched an offensive to clear insurgents from a central district of Helmand Province.
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