The U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was hit by a suicide car bomber this evening, the Associated Press reports. The bombing was apparenty aimed at westerners entering the embassy to take part in a Thanksgiving Day footrace.

KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide car bomb exploded outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday in an attack against an American convoy, police said.

Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi said one person was killed and six wounded in the attack, about 200 yards from the entrance.

The report notes that one person has been confirmed dead, but the BBC has a police chief claiming that more had been killed. Early reports are usually sketchy and this is no exception.

Via Gabriel Malor. As he says, this is yet another reminder that the threat of terrorism hasn’t suddenly disappeared. The war on terror must still go on.