A suspected Taliban bomber killed nine while targeting a NATO base at Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan

A suspected Taliban bomber killed nine while targeting a NATO base at Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, following days of anti-US protests over the burning of the holy Quran.
  
Six civilians, an Afghan soldier and two local guards were killed, police said, but there were no reports of NATO casualties, according to a spokesman for the US-led International Security Assistance Force.
  
Taliban group claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it was in revenge for the burning of Qurans at a US military base, taking the toll in six days of violent protests across the country to around 40 people. "The foreign forces have insulted our religion and this attack was revenge," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP.
  
On Sunday, seven US soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack during an anti-US demonstration at their base in northern Kunduz province, police said. On Saturday, two US advisers were shot dead in the interior ministry in Kabul just days after two US troops died as an Afghan soldier turned his weapon on them as thousands of demonstrators approached their base in the east.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the protests in Afghanistan over the burning of Qurans by US occupation soldiers "must stop". "We deeply regret the incident that has led to this protest, but we also believe that violence must stop and the hard work for building a more peaceful and secure Afghanistan must continue," she told a news conference.
  
President Hamid Karzai went on television on the same day to appeal for calm and be aware from enemies of Afghanistan who would misuse this incident.

Taliban militants have called on Afghans to kill foreign troops in revenge for the incident, and claimed to have been behind the killing of the two US advisers in the interior ministry.