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| At least 13 killed in Afghan roadside bombing: police |
| 2012-03-16 |
| [Dawn] A Taliban roadside kaboom tore through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine children and four women, police said. The bombing in the troubled province's Dihrawud district comes a day after a similar incident killed eight civilians in the neighbouring province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and while US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... was holding talks in Kabul. The blast hit a station wagon travelling on a dirt road in Uruzgan province, provincial police front man Farid Ail told AFP. "There are 13 people dead: nine children and four women," he said. Two others were maimed, he added. Ail blamed the incident on "Taliban, the enemies of our people who plant bombs on our public roads to kill our innocent children and women." The rebels, most active in southern and eastern parts of the war-scarred country, mainly use improvised bombs and suicide kabooms. The crude devices are aimed at Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... security forces but often miss their targets and hit civilians using the same roads. The number of civilians killed has risen steadily each year for the past five years, reaching a record of 3,021 in 2011, according to UN statistics. |
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