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Afghanistan
Kabul suicide boom kills 5
2003-12-29
Five Afghan security officials were killed in Kabul on Sunday when a “terrorist” they had detained blew himself up, a Defence Ministry spokesman said.
Does that mean they're "dead"?
The blast, at around 5:30pm, destroyed the car in which the six men were sitting just south of the Kabul airport. “Altogether six people were killed,” the spokesman said. “We believe Dr Jalal, head of Fahim’s personal security, was killed when the terrorist that was caught set off explosive devices he had attached to his body. The bodies are beyond recognition.” A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the suicide blast and warned that another 60 suicide bombers planning to attack foreigners had entered Kabul. The spokesman said the bombers would attack peacekeeping troops, coalition forces and people working for the UN and NGOs. “The attack was carried out by martyred Abdullah, 35 years old and a citizen of Chechnya. He was walking toward the ISAF base in Kabul airport to carry out a suicide attack.”
Yeah. That Afghan resistance. Made up of Paks and Chechens.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#7  Hurree Chunder Mukkerjee and I get a lot of laffs out of this site...
Posted by: Fred   2003-12-29 2:20:42 PM  

#6  You just know Fred's got a pith helmet stashed somewhere. :)
Posted by: Shipman   2003-12-29 1:40:21 PM  

#5  Fred, you've been reading Kipling again.
Posted by: G   2003-12-29 1:24:41 PM  

#4  It's because they have that liking for guns, but no liking for discipline, either self- or imposed. Allah will take care of the details... and somebody will do the maintenance.
Posted by: Fred   2003-12-29 12:46:55 PM  

#3  I can't get over how sloppy Afghans are about security. First, there was the Massoud assassination. Then, there was the prison revolt that killed Mike Spann, the CIA operative. And now this. I think the US presence will persist for decades - the Afghans are just too incompetent to hold off the jihadis.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2003-12-29 11:57:06 AM  

#2  ps to Steve's memo: #4 transport to police station by dragging suspect chained to reaar bumper. #5 Interrogate remains
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-29 9:31:06 AM  

#1  Memo to Afghan security: #1 - Catch suspect, #2 - frisk suspect, if bomb vest found, remove same, #3 - hand cuff suspect's body.
Posted by: Steve   2003-12-29 8:57:53 AM  

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