Afghan spy chief wounded by underpants bomber
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Afghanistan's Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid speaks to the media in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province in this June 20, 2008 file photo. The Taleban said on Dec 6, 2012 they carried out a suicide bombing that wounded Khalid in Kabul, another sign that the government is struggling to improve security ahead of a Nato pullout in 2014. --PHOTO: REUTERS
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Afghan traffic policemen stand near the scene where Afghanistan's Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid was wounded in an assassination attempt on him in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 6, 2012. The suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Afghanistan's spy chief detonated a bomb hidden in his underwear, the intelligence agency said on Dec 7, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Afghanistan's Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid speaks to the media in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province in this June 20, 2008 file photo. The Taleban said on Dec 6, 2012 they carried out a suicide bombing that wounded Khalid in Kabul, another sign that the government is struggling to improve security ahead of a Nato pullout in 2014. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Afghan traffic policemen stand near the scene where Afghanistan's Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid was wounded in an assassination attempt on him in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 6, 2012. The suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Afghanistan's spy chief detonated a bomb hidden in his underwear, the intelligence agency said on Dec 7, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
KABUL (AFP) - The suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Afghanistan's spy chief detonated a bomb hidden in his underwear, the intelligence agency said on Friday.
Asadullah Khalid, who heads the National Directorate of Security (NDS), was targeted by a bomber posing as a Taleban peace envoy in a spy agency guesthouse in the upscale Kabul district of Taimani on Thursday.
Mr Khalid was wounded in the attack and is now being treated at a US-run military hospital outside Kabul where he is in a stable condition, security sources have said.
On Friday, the NDS said that he was "recovering" and in a "satisfactory" condition.
