[Tolo News] Three people including two policewoman were killed and 10 others were maimed in a kaboom near Herat...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
airport on Thursday morning, local officials said.
Sayed Sharif Mohammad, police commander for Herat airport, said the bomb exploded remotely and the target was five policewomen riding in a police vehicle on their way to their jobs at the airport.
This is the first time that bully boyz have targeted Afghan policewomen in Herat province.
No one has as yet grabbed credit for the attack.
Five police offers and five civilians were among the maimed.
Recently, United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
said in a report to the Security Council that civilian casualties in Afghanistan are 39 per cent higher this year than last year.
The report acknowledged that night raids by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
contributed to the civilian casualty figures.