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Bombs Kill 8 Afghan Civilians, 2 NATO Soldiers
[An Nahar] Eight Afghan non-combatants were killed in a Taliban bombing in northern Afghanistan on Thursday and two NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... soldiers were killed in similar bombs elsewhere in the troubled country, officials said. The civilians died in northern Faryab province when their mini-van struck a home-made bomb of the kind widely used by Taliban hard boyz in attacks aimed at military forces. "Eight civilians, including a woman and child, were killed and six others maimed," provincial police chief, Abdul Khaliq Aqsai told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that a police convoy had been passing as the bomb went kaboom!. Jawed Badar, a front man for the provincial administration, said the civilians were travelling to the bustling provincial capital for Ramadan, the Moslem fasting month which is set to start within days. In separate but similar kabooms two NATO soldiers were killed in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said, giving no further details. Roadside bombs are the most the common weapon used by Taliban hard boyz waging a war to bring down the government of 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... , which is backed by some 130,000 US-led NATO troops. Most bully boy activity is centered in southern and eastern Afghanistan, but the faceless myrmidons have stepped up attacks in the previously peaceful northern and western parts of the country. On Wednesday, a bomb that authorities said was planted by the Taliban destroyed 22 fuel tankers carrying supplies for NATO troops in Samangan, a province along a key highway that connects Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, to the north. Earlier in the week a suicide kaboom on a wedding party in the same province killed 17 people, including a prominent MP. Posted by: Fred 2012-07-20 |
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