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1 Dead, Up to 70 Injured in Attack Near Afghan NATO Base
 [An Nahar] A powerful truck bomb went kaboom!near the gate of a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... base in Afghanistan Friday, killing one person and wounding as many as 70 others, including a foreign soldier, officials said. The Taliban grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom at Combat Outpost McClain in Muhammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, which took place at around 8:00am (0330 GMT). The blast outside the small base could be heard for several kilometers (miles), an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound in the area said, and was described as "huge" by local police chief. Pashtun-infested Logar provincial governor Atiqullah Ludin said an Afghan carpenter who had just entered the camp through the gate was killed in the attack, while seven others -- five police and two intelligence officials -- were maimed. But Pashtun-infested Logar's health director, Mohammad Zarif Nayebkhail, told AFP up to 70 people from the surrounding area were taken to hospital with injuries from shrapnel or flying glass. "Seven of them are (Afghan) security guards of NATO, the rest are civilians," he said. "Several of the maimed were in a serious condition." NATO's U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that one coalition soldier was maimed. ISAF said none of its troops were killed and it is not thought the blast breached the base's perimeter. Pashtun-infested Logar's deputy police chief Mohammad Abed described the kaboom as "huge," adding it had destroyed some homes nearby. "The suicide attacker wanted to ram his explosive-laden vehicle into the coalition forces base but he was stopped at the gate and detonated the truck outside the base," he said. In September, 77 U.S. troops were maimed in a truck bombing which targeted a NATO base in Wardak province, which neighbors Pashtun-infested Logar. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-03 |
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