Posted on 12/30/2008 6:38:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Five people were killed and nearly 40 wounded in two bomb blasts in Afghanistan yesterday, as a town mourned 14 children killed at the weekend in a Taliban suicide attack. Two US soldiers and their interpreter were among about 20 people wounded in one of the attacks -- a suicide car bombing in the small town of Charikar, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital Kabul, officials said. There has been a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan every day since Friday... A purported member of the Hezb-i-Islami faction of insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claimed responsibility for the Charikar bombing... Afghan health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim told AFP that two civilians were killed and 17 wounded. The interior ministry gave a similar toll... A second blast hit the southern town of Spin Boldak, on the border with Pakistan, killing a two-year-old and two adults, Kandahar province police chief Muttiullah Khan said... The Taliban claimed responsibility for a powerful suicide car bombing in the eastern province of Khost on Sunday that the NATO military force said killed 14 children and two adults... The children had come to their school near the government compound to collect books for the next year, the principal of the Sarban school, Mohammad Daud, told Eight of the victims, aged around 10, were buried on Sunday, he said. Prayer services were held Monday for the dead and a larger commemoration was due at the school on Thursday.
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Taleban ‘will kill school girls’
BBC News | December 27, 2008
Posted on 12/27/2008 6:05:43 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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Suicide Attack Near Afghan School Kills 7, Wounds 36
VOA News | 28 December 2008
Posted on 12/28/2008 8:20:37 AM PST by MadJack
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Afghanistan:Children Slaughtered
Islam in Action | Dec. 28Th 2008 | Christopher Logan
Posted on 12/28/2008 12:57:48 PM PST by Islaminaction
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RIP.
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