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| Afghanistan mosque bomb wounds 19 |
| 2012-08-05 |
| [Dawn] A bomb hidden inside a mosque tore through dozens of worshippers during Friday prayers in eastern Afghanistan, wounding at least 19 including the imam, officials said. The attack in Chaparhar town in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province came just days after a provincial judge was killed and four civilians were maimed in a mosque bombing in southern Uruzgan province. "The bomb went off close to the imam as he was offering the Friday prayer," provincial front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told AFP. "Nineteen people have been injured, among them the imam who is in a critical condition," he said, blaming Taliban beturbanned goons for the bombing. A front man for the beturbanned goons denied responsibility for the attack. A member of the provincial council, who declined to give his name for security reasons, suggested the imam might have been targeted after agreeing to offer prayers for a man killed by the Taliban for working with US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces. The Taliban, whose hardline regime was tossed in a US-led invasion in 2001, warned at the start of their annual summer offensive this year that they would target Afghans working for foreign organizations. Large numbers of local people work for Western civilian and military projects in Afghanistan, where NATO has 130,000 troops helping the Kabul government fight the myrmidons. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 was this the "peaceful Taliban", Hamid? Happy Ramadan! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-08-05 09:13 |