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| Afghanistan |
| Suicide car bomb kills 16 in Kabul |
| 2006-09-08 |
| A massive car bomb exploded near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Friday, killing at least 16 people including up to seven foreigners, the worst suicide attack in the city since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001. The attack on a packed road of pharmacies and restaurants appeared aimed at a U.S. military convoy and came ahead of Monday's fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Police and rescue officials said at least 16 people, including up to seven foreign soldiers or security contractors, were killed in the explosion that stripped trees, wrecked cars and shattered windows for several hundred metres. "Some of them turned into pieces," a policeman said as rescue crews hosed down fires and washed blood and body parts from the road, metres from the entrance to the U.S. embassy. Many of the Afghan dead were poor street cleaners preparing the area for the anniversary of the death of freedom fighter Ahmed Masood, whose brown marble monument is nearby. Taliban rebels told Reuters by satellite phone they made the attack, but did not say what the target was. The Taliban denies attacking civilians, but many raids aimed at foreigners kill more Afghans than soldiers. The U.S. military said at last two of its personnel were killed in the Kabul attack. Rest at link. |
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