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Afghanistan
Graveyard bomb kills 14 women and children in Afghan east
2013-08-09
[Dawn] A bomb planted in an Afghan graveyard killed 14 women and kiddies on Thursday, many of them present at the graveside of a family member during the Mohammedan Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.

The bomb went kaboom! in a rural district of eastern 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, said the provincial governor's front man, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.

Nangarhar and its capital, Jalalabad, have been racked by a series of bombings and suicide kabooms over the last week.

It is common in Afghanistan on the first day of Eid for people to pay their respects at the graves of loved ones. The victims were mainly from one family, Abdulzai said.

Three women and one child were maimed, he added.

Three Afghan bodyguards for the Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province police chief, Mohammad Hakim Angaar, were killed on Wednesday in a suicide kaboom, the provincial governor's front man, Omar Zwak, said.

In June, a jacket wallah rammed a boom-mobile into the former Helmand police chief's convoy, wounding three.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Fatwah against taliban in.... never.
Posted by: JFM   2013-08-09 04:29  

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