Key Afghan Tribal Leader Killed in Blast

Police say a suicide bomber has killed 15 people in eastern Afghanistan, including a key tribal leader who played a major role in a failed attempt to capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001.

Police Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi says the bomber set off his explosives in Khogyani district next to a small group of tribal elders and government workers as they were meeting Monday with a few hundred Afghan refugees who had recently returned from Pakistan.

Among the dead was Mohammad Zaman Ghamsharik, better known as Haji Zaman. He and another warlord from the Jalalabad area, Hazrat Ali, commanded Afghan forces who cornered the al Qaeda leader in the mountains of Nangarhar province but allowed him to slip away.

A Taliban commander told CBS News' Sami Yousafzai that Zaman was killed, in part, for his role in the Tora Bora incident, saying he was on a Taliban "target list" for cooperating against al Qaeda and the Taliban.