Two US soldiers were killed Thursday in a suicide car-bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the attack was carried out at 11 a.m. local time, when Hamid Karzai was being sworn in as the President in Kabul for a second term.
The bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near the gate of a NATO base in Zabul province, police said.
The incident reminded of the challenge ahead for Kabul as well as for the foreign forces fighting terrorism in that country for the past 8 years.
In a secret cable he sent to the White House last week, US Ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, warned that it was "not a good idea" to send substantially more soldiers to that war-torn country.
The Obama administration is considering a request by General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, for sending an additional 40,000 troops to the country.
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