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Suicide attack kills 6 in Afghanistan
[Bangla Daily Star] A jacket wallah killed up to six Afghans and maimed 20 others in an attack outside a bank in the southern city of Kandahar as people were waiting to collect their salaries, officials said.

He said both police and civilians waiting to collect their wages were among the victims. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

"Tragically, the initial corpse count shows we have six dead and 20 maimed in this crowded part of the city, and most of the victims were civilians, and they came to the bank for their daily business activities," a statement from Kandahar media office said.

Kandahar police front man Ahmad Zia Durrani gave the toll as five people killed and 22 maimed, saying seven of those injured were coppers and the rest were civilians.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Afghan officials often blame Taliban bully boys, who are waging a nearly 12-year war against the US-backed government of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... 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 Pashtun face 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...
, for such attacks.

Southern Afghanistan is considered a hotbed of the Taliban insurgency, and the hard boyz have a strong presence in Kandahar province.

Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell...
a roadside kaboom hit a civilian vehicle in Sangin district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province on Friday evening, killing 12 civilians including a woman, Helmand government front man Omar Zwak told AFP.


Posted by: Fred 2013-09-01
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