It came hours after the Taliban's threat to cut off the heads of U.S. soldiers in retaliation for the killing of civilians.
Two of the brothers of President Hamid Karzai and are Shah Wali Karzai, Abdul Qayum Karzai, heading with senior defense officials and officials from the intelligence and the Ministry of Interior to the villages and Naguiban Alecozaa in Panjwai district in Kandahar where the soldier was killed civilians.
Was not damaged during the clash Bokhuy Karzai, who broke a gun but a soldier and a civilian were wounded. The area is a stronghold of the Taliban and the supply path of the movement.
He said Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman in an emailed statement using the name you use to describe the Taliban itself the "Islamic Emirate once again warns Americans that the Mujahideen animals take revenge of them .. and God's help we will kill your soldiers and cut off the necks of sadistic serial killers."
With the outbreak of the first protest against the attack by the U.S. soldier at the weekend said the Taliban claim that the Afghan government to hold a public trial of the soldier unit will not reduce civilian hostility to Western forces fighting.
The American soldier who was unnamed defendant to leave his base in the troubled province of Kandahar in the middle of the night and shot dead 16 villagers, mostly women and children.
A U.S. official said on Monday that the U.S. soldier, he had previously treated for severe brain injury after the vehicle coup in Iraq in 2010.
The murders demonstration in which about 2000 students in the eastern city of Jalalabad and the student protesters soldier to stand trial in front of the Afghan authorities in Kandahar.
And U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan counterpart promised "accounting of any official." Obama said that the incident increases the intention to implement the plans for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Obama said in a television interview that the incident "makes me more determined to work to ensure the return of our troops home."
But Obama also said he did not believe that there should be a "rush out" and that the withdrawal should be carried out in a responsible manner.
Obama hosts the leaders of NATO countries at a summit in May, will focus on identifying plans to reduce gradually the Western forces and hand over the task of maintaining security to Afghan forces.
He said U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that the prosecutor in the case of the attack on Afghan villagers may ask to death but he considered it an isolated incident will not change withdrawal plans.
By Rob Taylor and Mirwais Harouni
Source: Reuters
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