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| Suicide bomber kills intelligence official |
| 2004-02-11 |
| The deputy intelligence director of troubled southeastern Khost province was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday, an official said. "The deputy intelligence director of Khost province, Mohammed Isa, was killed in a suicide attack by Taliban and al-Qaeda on Wednesday morning," Khost military division commander Khial Baz Khan told the news agency. "We are investigating the case." A spokesman for the ousted Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime claimed responsibility for the Khost attack minutes after it occurred. This is the third suicide attack in the past month in Afghanistan. On January 27 and 28 two suicide bombers targeted International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in Kabul, killing one British and one Canadian soldier and wounding more than a dozen others. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 More details on the story: Khost town's deputy intelligence chief, Colonel Mohammad Isa, was on his way to his office when the assailant opened fire on his car and killed him in a bazaar, witnesses said. "The man started to run away, but blew himself up amid shouting when the soldiers tried to arrest him," said Pacha Gul, a shopkeeper near the scene. Two Taliban officials said separately that members of the ousted militia were behind the attack on Isa, but gave different accounts of how the attacker died. Taliban spokesman Hamid Agha said Afghan police killed the assailant, but Abdul Latif Hakimi, another Taliban official, said the man blew himself up after killing Isa. "The man was a Talib and an Afghan," Hakimi said. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press agency said Isa had escaped an assassination attempt last year, and a junior intelligence official was killed in the same town two months ago. Afghan Taliban don't normally do suicide bombing. Sounds to me like he shot the intel officer, tried to get away, but couldn't make it. Might have boomed himself, might have just dropped a grenade he was trying to throw at the coppers. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-2-11 10:39:39 AM |
| #1 An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, victim for a martyr. Welcome to the Religion of Pieces. |
| Posted by: john 2004-2-11 10:30:16 AM |