Bomb in Kandahar Kills at Least 10

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan

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A soldier, Amanullah Popolzai, said authorities arrested a man spotted running away from the scene shortly before the explosion. The man, who appeared to be an Afghan, was arrested after trying to hide in a nearby home. "This was the work of the Taliban. The man looked like he was a Talib fighter," Popolzai said.

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From Tampa Bay Online

Powerful Bomb Kills at Least 10 in Southern Afghan City
By Noor Khan Associated Press Writer
Published: Jan 6, 2004

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bicycle bomb exploded Tuesday on a street in this southern Afghan city, killing at least 10 people and shattering cars and windows in the area, witnesses and police said.
The victims all appeared to be Afghans who were walking on the street when the blast occurred, Deputy Police Chief Salim Khan told The Associated Press. He said at least 15 other people were injured.

A soldier, Amanullah Popolzai, said authorities detained a man spotted running away from the scene shortly before the explosion. The man, who appeared to be an Afghan member of the renegade Taliban, was caught trying to hide in a nearby home, Popolzai said.

A badly damaged truck lay in the middle of the road after the explosion, its driver among the dead. The torn metal of about a dozen bicycles littered the asphalt.

The bomb had been attached to one of the bikes, Khan said.

The blast occurred in a residential sector of eastern Kandahar, about 100 yards from an Afghan military base. Dozens of Afghan and American soldiers swarmed into the area, sealing it off.

The attack was the latest in a stream of shootings, kidnappings and bombs against civilians as well as soldiers in the south and east of the country, with many of the attacks claimed by Taliban militants.

Many have occurred in the Kandahar area, the former Taliban stronghold that is the focus of a U.S. plan to deploy troops and civilian reconstruction workers across the south to make it safe for summer elections and badly needed reconstruction.

On Monday, gunmen attacked the office of the United Nations refugee agency in Kandahar, throwing a grenade and firing shots but causing no injuries.

Exactly a month ago, a bomb ripped through a bustling bazaar in the city, wounding 20 Afghans, in an attack the Taliban said targeted - but missed - U.S. soldiers.

AP-ES-01-06-04 0427EST

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At least 15 dead in bomb blast in southern Afghanistan

At least 15 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 11 others injured after a large bomb ripped through the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a military commander told AFP.

Ahmad Shah told AFP nine people had died at the US military hospital at Kandahar airport, another three at a different hospital and three others at the scene of the explosion in the southern Manzalbath area.

Around 20 minutes before the deadly blast a smaller device detonated in the same area, without causing casualties. The blasts occurred minutes before provincial governor Yusuf Pashtun was due to pass through the area.

A police officer who identified himself as Khalil said most of the dead and injured were women and children.

He said one suspect had been arrested over the first bomb blast and that he told police more bombs were planted in the city.

Kandahar is the former stronghold of Afghanistan's Taliban regime which was ousted by US-backed forces in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The first device went off at about 12:45 pm (0815 GMT), just minutes after police had sealed off the area following a tip-off. Police said residents became suspicious when two men moved a cart into the area and then departed.

"First there was an explosion in a cart and soon after this explosion the cart-pusher was arrested," said Kandahar's military commander Khan Mohammad.

Southern and southeastern Afghanistan have been hard-hit by an apparent resurgence of the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies who have increasingly targeted aid workers as well as government troops.

On Monday unidentified gunmen opened fire and hurled a grenade at a United Nations office in Kandahar, without causing casualties, Khan Mohammad told AFP.

The attackers also fired shots with Kalashnikov rifles before the guards returned fire and the gunmen fled.

More than 400 people, many suspected militants, have been killed in the past five months in violence blamed on remnants of the ousted Taliban militia.

The 12,500-strong US-led coalition is hunting down Taliban and al-Qaeda militants mainly in the southern and southeastern provinces bordering Pakistan.

Agence France-Presse

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bicycle bomb exploded Tuesday on a street in this southern Afghan city, killing at least 10 people...

The victims all appeared to be Afghans who were walking on the street when the blast occurred..

..authorities detained a man spotted running away from the scene shortly before the explosion. The man, who appeared to be an Afghan member of the renegade Taliban, was caught trying to hide in a nearby home, Popolzai said.

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Welcome to Gitmo!

This clown will not make it to Gitmo -- the Afghanis have their own rough justice (read Kipling).

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Kandahar, the "religious" center of Afghanistan. Further proof of the religion of peace tm.

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Bombs don't kill Muslims. Muslims kill Muslims.

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Another example of their moral superiority

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