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| Afghanistan |
| 3 suicide attackers killed in eastern Afghanistan |
| 2011-10-17 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Afghan police rubbed out three jacket wallahs attempting to target mayoral offices in the east of the country on Sunday, but a car boom set up for the attack blew up, killing one worker, an official said. "At around noon, three suicide kaboomers with an explosives-packed vehicle tried to enter the municipality building in Gardez and target the city hall, but they were stopped and killed by the police," Rohullah Samoon, front man for Paktia provincial governor told AFP. He said the attackers left their bomb-rigged vehicle, which detonated before foreign troops were able to arrive to defuse it, killing one worker. The eastern region of Afghanistan has been the focus of US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... efforts in recent weeks, shifting from Taliban strongholds in the south towards the restive wild border with Pakistain where senior snuffies hold sway. The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... says that violent incidents in the 10-year conflict were up by nearly 40 percent in the first eight months of this year compared to a year earlier. Suicide attacks made up a greater proportion of the violence, with three such attacks reported each month in 2011, 50 percent more than last year. NATO's International Security Assistance Force disputes the figures, saying that by its tally violence is down by two percent over the same period. |
| Posted by:Fred |