Thanksgiving. US Embassy in Kabul is bombed

A suicide car bomb has exploded about 200 yards (The Times says 60 m) outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in an attack against a nearby American convoy. The latest in over 130 suicide bomb attacks this year.

Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi says one person was killed and six wounded in the attack. The city's head of criminal investigations told reporters that four had died in the bombing and Abdullah Fahim, the spokesman of the health ministry, says the attack killed four people and wounded 18 others.

The U.S. Embassy was hosting a Thanksgiving Day footrace, and Americans and other Westerners were entering the embassy compound at the time of the explosion. Today is the last day of the visit by the United Nations security council delegation.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (shortly due for election) sharply criticised the international community effort in Afghanistan at a news conference with the secretary general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

"We haven't accepted the international community so our lives would get worse," he said. "we accepted them so our lives would get better. We can accept some destruction – even some civilian casualties – if we have hope for the future of security and peace... but this fighting can't be the only way forever."

He has also criticized the detention of hundreds of suspects for years without trial at Bagram air base and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Suicide bomb attack on Italian troops on Saturday

The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on a team of Italian soldiers building a bridge in a town near Kabul on Saturday.

Three schoolchildren are among six civilians killed. An Italian soldier was killed and 11 people, including three other Italian troops, were injured in the attack west of Afghanistan's capital.

Nazanine Moshiri, Al Jazeera's correspondent at the scene of the attack, said the children had gathered around the engineers and soldiers as they often gave out sweets and chocolate.

Moshiri said the injured Italians had been working on a bridge "for four days consecutively when this suicide attack took place around 10 [0530 GMT] this morning".

"They were surrounded by local children who were curious about what was going on.

"It's also normal for soldiers or engineers or reconstruction workers to give out sweets and chocolates," she said.

Emergency - Italian medical chairty forced to leave Afghanistan

Emergency is a voluntary Italian based medical charity - They have now been accused by the Head of the Afghan Secret Services as supporting the Taliban.

In 1999 Emergency has constructed a surgical center to Anabah, a Panshir village under the control of Massud commander, head of the Northern Alliance.

In 2001 they opened a second surgical Center in Kabul governed when the Taliban were in power.

In 2003 Emergency constructed a hospital in Lashkar-gah, in the Pashtin province of Helmand, an area previously without any hospitals.

In that time they have also opened and operate 28 First aid Centers which often transferred patients on to their hospitals.

Emergency has been operating continuously from 1999 - 2007 and dealt with over 1.65 million people. Emergency have now been been forced to abandon the country and to suspend the humanitarian program.

Emergency also operate in Cambodia, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan and in Italy.

Medecin sans Frontieres the French medical charity were forced after working in Afghanistan for 24 years to leave in 2004 following killings, threats and insecurity.