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Suicide attack kills 4 in eastern Afghanistan
[Emirates 24/7] Afghan police say a jacket wallah on a  cycle of violence has detonated his explosives outside a local police headquarters, killing four people.Abdul Rahman, who coordinates security in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, says two coppers and two civilians died in the attack Sunday in Yahya Khel district near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistain. After the attack, gunnies fired bullets at the police headquarters from two or three directions, but the gunfire ended after 15 minutes and no other casualties were reported. In Kabul, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... appointed a panel of high-ranking officials, led by Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, to investigate the liquidation of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , who headed the nation's peace council. Posted by: Fred 2011-09-26 |
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