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Afghanistan

60 dead in Afghanistan hospital bombing

2011-06-25

Today's dispatch from the depths of depravity...
A HUGE car bombing at a hospital killed 60 and wounded 120 in Afghanistan today, days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year.

The brazen suicide attack in Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, killed women and children and was described as "unprecedented" in the history of the near-decade-long Afghan war by officials.

"As a result of this heartbreaking incident, 60 of our countrymen including children, women, youths and men ... have been martyred and 120 others including health workers have been injured," the ministry of public health said in a statement.

"This inhumane act is unprecedented in the history of the conflict in our country and targeted a place where wounds are healed and patients receive treatment."

The statement also voiced "disgust and hatred towards the perpetrators."

Posted by:tipper

#4 The Taliban are both enraged that their victims have medical care, and that they do not. Allah seems indifferent to their use of Korans as pillows and cow dung as poultices, and lets the djinn give them raging infections and gangrene.

Every now and then they try to raid clinics and hospitals for their antibiotics and any medical anything they can steal, and maybe butcher any medical people and their patients at the same time.

Such people as the Taliban really deserve gangrene and tetanus.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-25 16:53

#3 The BBC add:

The hospital building was destroyed and people buried under rubble. Casualties included women, children and elderly.

The Afghan health ministry said the attack was unprecedented and inhumane.

Officials blamed the Taliban, but a Taliban spokesman said the movement did not target civilians and the blast was caused by "someone with an agenda".

However, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says the Taliban is always careful to distance itself from major attacks with large numbers of civilian casualties.

Some earlier reports said 60 people had died in the attack.

An intelligence official said the vehicle had been detonated close to the hospital after police had tried to stop it, and that it was not clear what the actual target was.

Provincial official Din Mohammad Darwaish said the death toll could well increase as there were still people buried.

Soldiers have been dispatched to the scene to try to pull out those that are trapped.

A large number of people had been gathering at the clinic, in Azra district, for weekly treatment, many of them women, children and elderly people, Mr Darwaish said.

Doctors and nurses were also said to be among the dead.

Our correspondent says there has never been an attack on a hospital in Afghanistan on this scale, although last month a suicide bomber attacked the main military hospital in Kabul, killing six people.

There is almost no central government control over Azra, which is close to the Pakistan border, and insurgents and smugglers are well-established there, he adds.

Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-25 14:02

#2 ..."At least 20 of our countrymen have been ~~martyred~~" murdered
there fixed

The Taliban denied it was behind the attack, with spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid saying: "We condemn this attack on a hospital ... whoever has done this wants to defame the Taliban."
yeah right

Posted by: Jan 2011-06-25 13:10

#1 I am willing to bet that:
a) Most, if not all, of the victims were Muslims
b) The perpetrator was Muslim

Yet, Muslims in the US claim that they cannot join the armed services, because they would be forced to kill Muslims.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-06-25 11:29

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