Afghan members of parliament rejected President Karzai’s plan to appoint all five members of the Electoral Complaints Commission. Karzai warned that “the insurgency will change to a national resistance” if foreign countries interfered with his appointments to the ECC. Joint forces killed three Taliban fighters in Khost and Kandahar. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand. A suicide bomber killed only himself in an attack on a fuel convoy in Farah.
