03/13/2010: On Saturday evening a few minutes after 1930, in Kandahar, Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the fourth of five related attacks, assailants detonated a remote-controlled improvised explosive device attached to a motorcycle in front of the Red Mosque outside the residence of the head of the provincial council, Ahmed Wali Karzai. It is unclear whether or not the half brother of the Afghan President was the target of this attack. Karzai escaped unhurt. No casualty information or damages were reported for this attack. In the first attack, occurring at 1930, assailants detonated a Mazda truck filled with 700 kilos of explosives. Minutes later, a second suicide bomber detonated on the road in front of the prison. Seven women and three children were killed while they were on their way to a wedding hall in the locality and an unspecified number of wedding guests were wounded in the attack. In the second attack, two suicide bombers detonated themselves in front of Kandahar police headquarters, killing 13 policemen. Chief of police, Sardar Mohammad, said that the police were killed after opening fire on a car bomber near the main entrance of the headquarters. In the third attack, assailants attacked the Al-Jadded market targeting a police patrol. No casualty information or damages were reported for this attack. The fifth explosion occurred on a road near a Kabul bus stand. No other details were provided on the fifth attack including casualty information or damages. All five attacks were coordinated, occurring within minutes from each other. A total of 35 people were killed and 47 were wounded in the attacks. A total of 42 homes, several shops, the prison, the police headquarters, the Red Mosque and several power lines were damaged in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, and stated it was a warning to the International Security Assistance Force. A Taliban-linked Web site called the attacks in the south's largest city a "warning" to NATO's General Stanley McChrystal, who has said coalition forces will target Kandahar later this year after driving the insurgents from a key stronghold in neighboring Helmand province. Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the Taliban have started operations due to the operations that General McChrystal will soon begin and that they will not be enough to stop the Taliban.