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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan suicide attack kills 16 |
| 2014-07-09 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A Taliban jacket wallah killed 16 people including 10 civilians and four Czech soldiers in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, as foreign troops wind down their war against the krazed killers. Czech chief of staff Petr Pavel told news hounds in Prague that the bomber was in a crowd of Afghans talking to soldiers who were investigating rocket attacks against Bagram airbase, a major US military facility nearby. The attack, which was claimed by the Taliban, comes as Afghanistan is mired in political crisis, with a bitter row raging over allegations of fraud in the presidential runoff election. Waheed Sediqqi, front man for the governor of Parwan province, told AFP that ten civilians and two coppers were killed in the attack as well as the four soldiers. The turbans said 15 US special forces soldiers were killed. They routinely make exaggerated claims after such attacks. About 250 Czech soldiers serve among the 50,000 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... troops still deployed in Afghanistan. NATO's combat mission will wrap up at the end of this year, with 10,000 US troops staying into next year if the new president signs a security deal with Washington. About 3,450 coalition troops have been killed in Afghanistan since operations began in 2001 when the Taliban regime was ousted from power. US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... warned Tuesday that any attempt to seize power in the election crisis would cost the country its international aid. Initial results released on Monday showed former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani had won the election, but a front man for his poll rival Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... rejected the outcome as "a coup against the will of the people". Fraud allegations immediately stoked concerns of instability after the figures showed Ghani collected 56.4 percent of the run-off vote against ex-foreign minister Abdullah's 43.5 percent. |
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