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| Afghan IEDs kill 21 going to wedding | |
| 2009-08-07 | |
[Al Arabiya Latest] A roadside bomb struck a tractor carrying people to a wedding in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 civilians in one of the deadliest strikes in weeks, Afghan officials said on Thursday.
Gen. Sher Mohammad Zazai, commander of an Afghan military unit in Helmand province, said the explosion happened in Garmsir, a district of the province where U.S. Marines launched the biggest operation of the war last month against Taliban fighters. It was one of the deadliest bombings in weeks and comes with Afghanistan buffeted by soaring insurgent attacks and suffering record levels of violence in the eight years since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime. "It's the work of the enemy of the nation, it's the work of the enemy of peace and the work of the Taliban," Zazai said. In rural Afghanistan, where most people live in poverty without private vehicles, trailers are often harnessed to farm tractors to transport people. Second attack A separate roadside bomb exploded next to a police vehicle on Thursday in another part of Helmand province, the Nad Ali district, killing five policemen and wounding three others, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. In another incident, a U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Farah while on patrol on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 O brave, brave Lions of Islam! I wonder how many in Afghanistan will quietly lose their faith as a result of such pius jihadi behaviour, as happened in Iraq? Why none, of course, the Imams will blame it on the "Evil Mercans", and the fools will swallow the lie whole. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-07 23:04 |