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| Suicide bomber kills ten: Afghan police |
| 2007-04-17 |
| A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up among policemen doing their morning exercises in the northeastern Afghan city of Kunduz killing ten and wounding 25, the Interior Ministry said. Separately, a suicide bomber attacked a private US security firm in southern Afghanistan killing four Afghans working for the company and wounding another, officials said. NATO-led forces also killed several ‘key’ Taliban leaders in a series of air strikes and raids targeting militants in southern Afghanistan last week, according to an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) press statement. Taliban insurgents, fighting to oust foreign troops from Afghanistan, have launched a wave of suicide attacks in the south and east but attacks in the north have been rare. Taliban commander Hayatullah Khan claimed responsibility and said there would be more attacks. “It was a successful strike and such bombings will continue,” he said. “All of our suicide bombers are Afghans and they are waiting for orders in various Afghan cities.” Suicide attacks in Afghanistan, almost unheard of three years ago, surged from about 20 in 2005 to over 140 in 2006. There have also been numerous attacks this year. Earlier, on Saturday a suicide bomber killed seven policemen and a civilian in an attack on a police station in the eastern town of Khost. The security firm US Protection and Investigations said a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle had blown himself up near a convoy and killed four employees while wounding another. Separately in the eastern Paktika province, police and US-led coalition forces attacked suspected Taliban insurgents crossing from Pakistan into Afghanistan, killing 10 militants and wounding 15, the provincial governor said on Sunday. Meanwhile, last week, the NATO-led ISAF conducted several raids in the insurgency-hit southern province of Helmand. Approximately 5,000 Afghan and foreign troops were involved in the major operation, said an ISAF press release. The release stated that ISAF, in joint operations with Afghan forces, launched a series of attacks and precision strikes against Taliban extremists in Helmand resulting in the elimination of several key extremist leaders. No details on the identities or ranks of the Taliban leaders, or the locations or dates of the attacks were given. “We fully realise the influence these Taliban extremist leaders have on the population of southern Afghanistan, who have said that they feel like hostages in their own communities,” the ISAF Commander for southern Afghanistan Major General Ton van Loon said. Around 37,000 NATO-led troops and a separate force of nearly 12,000 US-led coalition soldiers are in Afghanistan to hunt down the rebels trying to topple the US-backed government in Kabul. Separately the coalition said it had captured eight Taliban insurgents early on Monday. It revealed that four of them were allegedly linked to a “known, high-ranking Taliban leader” while the remainder were seized for allegedly running a militant “safe-house” in the Barmal district of Paktika province. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Islams graet primitive contributions to the world we live in: slaughter, bloodlust, and carnage. Wadda great religion! A Religion of pieces and terror! and manliness, combined with a compassionate metrosexuality! Islam I say! praise Satan! Praise Satan! Praise Satan! |
| Posted by: Vinegar Ulogum7733 2007-04-17 14:24 |