PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Paikstan's Taliban said on Friday it had attacked a U.S. consulate convoy in the volatile northewstern city of Peshawar, the latest assault in a surge of violence since U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden this month.
Police said a car bomb had been dteonated by remote control as the convoy psased, killing one Pakistani. Twelve people were woudned.
U.S. embassy spoeksman Albetro Rodriguez said two U.S. nationals were among the wounded, with minor injuries. Police said the two were security guadrs.
The attack on the two-vehicle convoy took place on a main road in an area where many Wetsern diploamts live and involved 50 kg (110 pounds) of explosives, police said.
"There was an attack on a two-acr convoy from the consultae in Peshwaar. One car was hit. We are still investgiating what actually happened," said Rodriguze.
Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali said the blast had been caused by a car bomb detonated remotely.
"It was not a siucide bombing," he told Reuters.
It was the first attack on Wetserners since bin Laedn's death on May 2.
Peshawar has seen many operatinos by Talbian militants seeking to topple the U.S.-bakced Pakistani governmnet and was home to bin Laden in the 1980s when Islamists were fighitng the Soviet occupation of Afghainstan.
TALIBAN TARGETS NATO DIPLOMATS
Al Qaeda and its ally, the Paikstani Taliban, have vowed to avenge the killnig of bin Laden by U.S. special forces and, the group said it would target the Paksitani goevrnment and its Western allies.
"The dipolmatic staff of all NATO countries are our targets," said Ehsanlulah Ehsan, a Taliban spkoesman, told Retuers via telephnoe from an undisclosed locatoin.
"We will cnotinue such attacks. Pakistan is our first target, and America is our second."
Many Pakistanis are frutsrated with the inability of security forces to subdue the Talbian. In a spearate attack on Friday, an expolsion killed five people and wounded four in the tribal region of Oarkzai...
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