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| Afghanistan |
| Bomb found on Afghan bus transporting Indians |
| 2008-07-09 |
| A bomb was found on a bus transporting 12 Indian workers in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a governor said, a day after a suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul killed 41 people. The workers, including engineers, had noticed a 'suspicious package' on the bus as they were travelling to work in the southwestern province of Nimroz, provincial governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad told AFP. They called the police who discovered it was a remote-controlled bomb, he said. The driver of the bus was arrested for questioning. 'The bomb could have been fixed on his bus without him knowing but all this will be made clear after the investigation is over,' he said. Trooper dies: Meanwhile, a soldier from the NATO-led forces and four Afghan policemen were killed on Tuesday in new attacks linked to an insurgency in Afghanistan by Taliban and other Islamist extremists, officials said. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) trooper was killed when a roadside bomb struck a convoy in the eastern province of Kunar, NATO's ISAF said. Four other ISAF soldiers were wounded, it said. The 40-nation force did not give details, including the nationalities of the soldiers caught up in the attack. Most of the troops in Kunar are US citizens. Kunar, on the border with Pakistan, sees regular violence from militants involved in an insurgency against President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government. The insurgents mainly rely on bombs, including suicide devices, to attack international and Afghan troops. Also on Tuesday, two policemen were killed in fighting with Taliban insurgents in the central province of Ghazni, provincial spokesman Ismail Jahangir said. Five militants were also believed to have died in the hour-long battle but their bodies were removed from the scene, Jahngir told AFP. Two other policemen were killed in a similar incident in the neighbouring province of Paktika, another troubled region on the Pak-Afghan frontier, another government spokesman said. US carrier: A US aircraft carrier has moved to the Arabian Sea to support military operations in Afghanistan, leaving the Gulf without a carrier, US defence officials said on Tuesday. The shift by the USS Abraham Lincoln over the weekend comes amid stepped-up insurgent violence in Afghanistan. The operations in Afghanistan and Iraq 'are extremely dynamic and sometimes we have to adjust the posture of forces so we can we can take advantage of certain opportunities that are there,' said a Navy official, who asked not to be named. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Is the 5th fleet still in the Red Sea area? |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-07-09 19:32 |
| #3 It also puts it in a place where it's hard for Iran to attack it, Pappy. Not sure that has anything to do with the move, but it's a possibility. I think the US knows the Iranians are up to something, and are moving the pieces to confuse the issue, among other things. I would double those suspicions if a second carrier showed up. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-09 13:41 |
| #2 Possibly. But the air-support mission is the less.. fantastic explanation. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-07-09 11:51 |
| #1 US Carrier - Which would leave it in a good position to evacuate diplomats from Islamabad? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-07-09 01:06 |