Suicide bomber beats Kabul security

A lone suicide bomber slipped through a tight security cordon in Kabul on foot yesterday and killed three people in a market area near the United States Embassy as the world's top diplomats began arriving for the biggest international meeting in Afghanistan since the 1970s.

Afghan and Nato forces promised to do everything they could to prevent a terrorist spectacular tomorrow when delegates from 60 nations meet to discuss handing more control of reconstruction and development to the Afghan Government.