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Afghanistan |
Bomb, Taleban ambush kills 19 Afghan construction workers |
2006-09-23 |
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Nineteen Afghan road workers were killed in Afghanistan on Friday when a bomb blast struck their vehicle and they were ambushed by a mob of Taleban, the interior ministry said. The bus was attacked on the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar before noon, ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari told AFP. “Nineteen people were martyred and only three wounded workers managed to escape the Taleban ambush,” Bashari said. After the blast, the attackers descended on the blown-up bus and shot into the vehicle. |
Posted by:Steve White |
#2 It mystifies me that groups that implement campaigns of random massacre of civilians can have any popular support whatsoever. If you snatch a kid in middle America, the population is energized to see you captured. Additionally, I can understand how assassination of police officers would soften up a location that you hope to eventually take-over. I don't understand how assassinating a road construction crew would lead to anything other than depopulating an area Successful insurgents would hide within a population and assassinate collaboraters. |
Posted by: Super Hose 2006-09-23 17:15 |
#1 I think my beer drinkin buddies and I could ambush a van load of unarmed construction workers and kill 19 at least. But that isn't really what real soldiers do is it, just Taliwhackers. The brave lions of islam, shooting construction workers. Whats next, gonna go to an all girls school and push them around some? |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-09-23 08:08 |