Gates probably didn't even know this transpired, but I'll bet it gives him something to think about if he hasn't been thinking about it already! Gives me the idea that DoS officials ought to have their kids travel around the country with them in an unarmored red Suburban starting a year after major combat operations cease. But you know that they would specify that everyone start traveling around the country in unarmored red Suburbans so they would have the safety in numbers thing on their side rather than have to come up with solutions.
A suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday struck near Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is in Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai and other officials.
| Please watch for dupes. We had this story yesterday. |
The suicide bomb went off on the same airport road Gates was on, within 20 minutes of Secretary Gates' convoy, a U.S. official tells ABC News.
| Whoopdy doo. It went off at the same gate, within 20 minutes either way of his convoy going by. |
The Associated Press reports the bomber struck a two-vehicle convoy belonging to NATO's International Security Assistance Force near the city's airport.
| Because the boomer thought it was Gates? Or because it was there? |
There were no casualties in the NATO convoy, however the blast wounding civilians passing nearby.
| (Are we having difficulties with tense?) Here's hoping the innocent bystanders weren't seriously wounded. |
A suicide bomber also struck the last time Vice President Dick Cheney visited Afghanistan.
| And with approximately the same degree of precision. |
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