 Three Italian soldiers were slightly wounded on Tuesday in an apparent suicide attack against NATO-led troops in Afghanistanâs western city of Herat, military and government officials said. A purported mouthpiece spokesman for the ousted Taleban government claimed responsibility for the blast, which struck a convoy of NATOâs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on the main road to the cityâs airport. âThere was a vehicle that pulled up alongside and blew up next to one of our vehicles,â ISAF spokesman Andy Elmes said. âThree Italian soldiers working with ISAF have been lightly injured,â he said.
"Hey, Giuseppe! Howzit goin'? What's that? A hangnail?"
"Nah. A suicide boomer got me." |
âIt is a possible suicide attack,â interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said in the capital, Kabul. He said the attacker had died.
| That makes it a suicide attack, doesn't it? |
A man who said he was a spokesman for the Taleban regime told AFP that one of the groupâs members had carried out the attack, which he said was aimed at US troops. âOne of our mujahedin... carried out a suicide car bomb attack involving an American convoy,â he said by telephone. His links with the ultra-conservative movement have not been verified.
| Nor do we particular care to verify. |
| Italians, Americans, close enough... |
| Infidels all look the same to me. :: shrug :: |
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