Posted on 11/26/2008 8:46:12 PM PST by traumer
A suspected suicide bomber has struck close to the entrance to the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, witnesses and police say.
It is unclear so far whether there are any casualties.
Reports said the bomber detonated explosives about 200m from the heavily guarded entrance to the US compound.
Security in Afghanistan has become a key concern for foreign troops and officials, as the country faces an increasingly strong Taleban insurgency.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
The one said he would go talk with them. Bush provide him a plane!
If you take up a collection to send Zero over there, I’ll
donate!
Suicide bomb kills Afghan near U.S. embassy
A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of foreign troops near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing one civilian and wounding six more, the head of the Afghan capital’s police force said.
The head of criminal investigations of Kabul police had said four civilians had been killed in the blast, but Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said only one civilian had been killed and six more wounded when the bomber blew up his Toyota saloon car on a road near the embassy and the Health Ministry.
U.S. embassy staff were off work for the Thanksgiving public holiday and were unlikely to be out on the roads at the time, an embassy spokesman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081127/ts_nm/us_afghan_blast
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Kabul car blast kills four
KABUL: Afghan police say a suicide car bomb has exploded about 200 yards (meters) outside the main entrance to the US Embassy in Kabul in an attack against an American convoy.
Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi says at least four civilians were killed and six wounded in the attack.
Police officer Abdul Manan says the attack appears to have been a suicide car bomb.
The U.S. Embassy was hosting a Thanksgiving Day footrace, and Americans and other Westerners were entering the embassy compound at the time of the explosion.
http://www.thearynews.com/english/newsdetail.asp?nid=17282
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God bless and protect our awesome troops.
They’re saving direct attacks on U.S. soil until after Obama’s inauguration.
Thought the world would love us now that Obama has been elected.
I guess I’m at least glad that al Queda no longer has the moral high ground eh?
Wonder what the libs are going to do.
The terrorists are putting the world on notice in the CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! :o)
I agree. But will they be to challenge Obama? Or garner support for him?
No - ANOINTMENT.
I wonder if freepers know how stupid they sound when they keep posting remarks about Obama in every thread.
The terrorist don’t love Obama or Bush. Get real.
It is scary how many freepers are wishing harm on America, now that Obama has won the election. Real scary. I guess it just shows the true colors of some of our members.
I hope Obama and his team are able to handle all the threats thrown at our nation. I for one won’t be like the DU posters who HOPE we lose this war.
Indeed. Except I believe at the time Obama (IF he does this)
places his hand on the Bible and swears to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution, bombs will go off all over American cities. :*(
This is just the beginning, folks. Remember what President Bush always warned about these modern day ‘evil-doers’?? Give up the fight, and you’ll embolden them to commit even more harm and horrors.
Well, looks like they’re emboldened. *sad sigh*
(See my sig)
Bush is still the president
I hope all of these events puts things back into perspective and his entire inauguration is totally f-cked up just like the Dems and Libs f-cked up both Bush ones in 2000 throwing eggs at his car and in the second one making him feel guilty for throwing parties in time of war.
Something is up.
let's see... if the Amish visiting in Las Vegas went on a rampage and killed 3000 people, then Amish in Miami went loco and shot up a mall..... then the Amish in Boston blew up the airport.... People would start hating the Amish and there might be some payback...
So if something were to happen here in the states that might cause the religious group affiliated with the Somalis to be blamed then attacked...well then they just might be packing for safety. Nobody likes to be in a free-fire zone.
Taliban threatens attacks on West: Spanish radio 26/11/2008 00:00
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A video discovered by Spanish security forces shows the Taliban threatening to stage attacks on Spain, United States, France, Denmark, Australia and Israel.
26 November 2008
MADRID – The Taliban has threatened to stage attacks on five Western nations deploying troops in Afghanistan in a video discovered by Spanish security forces, a local radio station said Wednesday.
The United States, Spain, France, Denmark and Australia are warned in the 42-minute video along with Israel, news radio Cadena Ser said.
It “threatens NATO and US troops with attacks against their interests inside and outside of Afghan territory if they do not withdraw from Afghanistan,” the radio said.
Cadena Ser said the video was distributed on 14 November, five days after two Spanish soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on their convoy in western Afghanistan.
In the opening minutes of the video, posted on the radio station’s website, the flags of the six threatened nations and that of the United Nations are suddenly engulfed in flames and then replaced by a solitary Islamic flag.
A man who is thought to be a Taliban leader and surrounded by four armed men, is then shown speaking in Dari, a dialect of Persian widely spoken in Afghanistan. The faces of the five men are covered.
Spanish security forces have given “total credibility” to the video, which is believed to have been produced in northern Afghanistan and then broadcast on a jihadist television channel, the radio station said.
It was not clear when the video was recorded.
The authors of the video belong to an ethnically mixed group that is directed by the leader of the Taliban, Shaikh Abd al-Basit, and are considered “very aggressive and dangerous”, Cadena Ser reported.
The Taliban were driven from government in a US-led invasion for sheltering Al-Qaeda after the September 2001 attacks.
But they have steadily increased their attacks in Afghanistan over two years, despite the efforts of the developing Afghan security forces and nearly 70,000 international soldiers, serving under NATO and as part of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom.
http://www.expatica.com/fr/articles/news/Taliban-threatens-attacks-on-West_-Spanish-radio.html
Teleporting?
“Thank You for flying Air Somalia diredt nono-stop from Minneapolis to Mogadishu”
I think there is a Civil war going on in Somolia.
The pirates are trying to finance an opposition.
That is priceless!!! ROFLMAO!!!!
Thanks to STARWISE for the ping to this thread and post no. 54.
Ping to backhoe, piasa,godzilla;velveeta,jet jaguar
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