DUBAI, March 7: A suicide attack that killed two Nato soldiers in eastern Afghanistan earlier this week was carried out by a Turk who had come from Germany, a group that monitors Islamist websites reported on Thursday.

The Islamic Jihad Union posted a statement online that said one of its members was responsible for the attack on Monday, the Site Intelligence Group said.

The author of the attack was identified as Cuneht Ciftci, alias Saad Abu Fourkan.

The statement said he had carried out “successfully a martyr operation against a military base of occupying infidels and apostate units in the Sabari Ulus Valley.”—AFP

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