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| 20 Injured in Grenade Attack in Southeast Afghanistan |
| 2011-12-19 |
| [An Nahar] At least 20 people were maimed when a man threw grenades at a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, an official said. Grenade attacks are relatively uncommon in Afghanistan but it was the second time in less than 48 hours that police have been targeted in such a way. The attacker threw at least two grenades at a police pickup truck in a crowded market in Khost city before fleeing the area, Khost provincial police front man Mir Akbar Mangal told Agence La Belle France Presse "Twenty people, including several police, were maimed in the attack. No one has been killed," he said, adding that police were hunting the attacker. Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... , which borders the Pakistain tribal areas, is a stronghold of the al-Qaeda- and Taliban-linked Haqqani cut-thoat group. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Taliban have said they were behind a grenade attack on a cop shoppe in Kabul on Friday night. Police said nobody was injured after a man lobbed at least one grenade at a district cop shoppe in the west of the capital. The forces of Evil who have been fighting NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led foreign troops and Afghan government forces for a decade use roadside and suicide bombs more frequently than grenades. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Oh dear, whatever will happen if these barbarians ever figure out they can use grenades instead of boom vests? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-12-19 12:06 |