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Afghan bombs kill 14: all red-wire green-wire related
 [Dawn] Two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan killed 14 people, including a group of gun-hung tough guys who were trying to rig an improvised bomb against Afghan and foreign forces, officials said Tuesday. In the volatile Nawzad district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, a group of seven Talibs died while trying to cut a pipe bomb and fit it into a vehicle on Monday, provincial front man Daud Ahmadi told AFP. "The explosive-packed pipe detonated killing a Taliban capo along with six of his fighters," he said. Roadside bombs are the most commonly used weapons by the Taliban, who are leading a 10-year insurgency, and are responsible for the bulk of deaths among the US-led coalition and Afghan cops. On the same day, seven people, including six women, were killed in an kaboom in Nawa district of the same province inside a house used by a local Taliban capo Mullah Manan, a security bigshot said. "We have intelligence that the Taliban capo was making bombs inside the house," Mohammad Ismail Hotak told AFP. Helmand has experienced increasing militancy over the past couple of years despite Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led operations. The number of civilian casualties, many of them killed by roadside kabooms, hit a record of 3,021 last year, according to a UN annual report. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-29 |
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