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| Bomber in Afghanistan kills 15, including six Americans |
| 2013-05-17 |
| [Al Ahram] A jacket wallah in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. Forty people were maimed in the blast at around 8 a.m. (0330 GMT) during the morning rush-hour. The Hezb-e-Islami krazed killer group, which is allied with the Taliban, grabbed credit for the attack on the two-vehicle convoy. 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... 's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the bomber killed two of its members and four civilian contractors. It declined to give their nationalities. But two bigwigs, one Afghan and the other from ISAF, said the two ISAF soldiers and four contractors were all American. Afghan officials said nine Afghan non-combatants were killed, including two children. "Some of the dead civilians were badly burnt and can not be recognised," Kaneshka Baktash, a front man for the Health Ministry, told Rooters. Helicopters buzzed over Kabul's diplomatic area after the attack and sirens whined. President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... strongly condemned the "cowardly" attack. "Terrorists and enemies of Afghanistan's peace brutally targeted a residential area," Karzai said in a statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |