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| Afghanistan |
| Bomber enters Afghan police chief compound but misses |
| 2012-01-11 |
| A teenage suicide bomber managed to slip through tight security into police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province Wednesday, but blew himself up before he could reach the police chief he was targeting, authorities said. A policeman was wounded in the attack, which came less than a year after a suicide bomber successfully killed previous Kandahar police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid in his compound, an attack the Taliban said they had ordered. The assault raises concerns about security in an area that was the birthplace of the Taliban and has been a focus of efforts by a surge of U.S. troops to boost Afghan government control in the south. "The 15-year-old boy had a letter for me and wanted to meet me," police chief Abdul Raziq told reporters. "But as soon as he got near my office a policeman noticed he (had explosives) and started to shoot him," Raziq said, adding that the bomber detonated his explosives on the spot. Raziq said an investigation was underway to see how the adolescent bomber managed to pass several layers of security with explosives strapped on his body. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 "I was a teenage suicide bomber" has all sorts of silly connotations. Teen angst. Peer pressure. Rebel without a clue. Driven to it by rock 'n' roll. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-11 11:21 |