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| Bomb kills 10 Afghans at dogfight | |
| 2011-02-28 | |
| [Al Arabiya] Two bomb kabooms on Sunday tore through a crowd of villagers watching a dogfight in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, killing at least 10, officials said. Zemarai Bashary, Afghan interior ministry front man in Kabul, told AFP the bombing in Arghandab district targeted villagers and a police vehicle, killing eight civilians and two police. "There have been two kabooms, one at the middle of a gathering and the other on the side of the road nearby. Eight civilians have been killed, two cops have been killed," the front man said. He said a dozen civilians and five police were maimed. He did not give details. Shah Mohammad, the district chief of Arghandab, said the attack was aimed at villagers watching a dogfight. "People had gathered to watch dog fighting. Two kabooms, from planted bombs, happened. Eight people, all civilians, have been killed," he told AFP. The bombing follows a deadly Taliban-led campaign of blasts and suicide kabooms that have rocked Afghanistan in recent weeks and killed more than 100 people, mostly civilians, this month. On February 20 nearly 40 people were killed in a gun and suicide kaboom by at least four Talibs on a bank in the eastern city of Jalalabad. That attack was the deadliest to hit the country since June last year. Most of the recent attacks have targeted densely packed civilian areas. Dog fighting is popular in southern Afghanistan, but the Taliban banned it as un-Islamic and Sunday's bombing was the latest attack to target people watching it.
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #3 Depends, Mr. Clinton. Among the Saudis and Bedouin, the Saluki is considered 'clean', perhaps because the breed helped feed people in the desert. Among the tribes in Afghanistan, feral and semi-feral dogs are fairly common, I'm told. Given that dogs evolved from wolves who hung around human settlements and ate waste - thereby both feeding the tamer wolves and also holding down disease etc. for the people - it's not surprising that they show up in many rural places around the world. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-02-28 18:19 |
| #2 Another exploding Chihuahua? First its cyborg hummingbirds and now its exploding dogs...what will the CIA ever think of next? I thought Moslems view dogs as unclean? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-02-28 14:58 |
| #1 Was Michael Vick there on a goodwill trip? |
| Posted by: Chesney Phiger9145 2011-02-28 10:13 |