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Explosion wounds 100 people in market in Mazar-e-Sharif
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| 12-20-01
Posted on 12/20/2001 11:09:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a market in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, wounding 100 people, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The blast occurred late Thursday afternoon. One of the wounded said he saw a fragmentation grenade roll into the moneychangers' section of the central market before the explosion.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; mazaresharif; mazarisharif
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To: anymouse
I took his handle to read "Private Eye," as in detective. Never heard of a Corporal eye. : )
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posted on
12/20/2001 2:17:33 PM PST
by
MadEagle
To: KSCITYBOY
The President's executive order to the CIA gives our crews the power to take this kind of action, according to the Bob Woodward article in the Washington Post. The article suggests that the story originated near Cheney or Rice.
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posted on
12/20/2001 3:27:46 PM PST
by
Faraday
To: MadEagle
And you would be right. But I would also like to make corporal. Been a lurker for a year and a half. I guess you might say Im a little cautious. :)
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posted on
12/20/2001 5:14:45 PM PST
by
PrivateI
To: Redleg Duke
You are, as I've said before, an idiot. I don't glout at Americans getting killed, but then again, the likes of you believes that anybody who fails to agree with them is a Marxist. I'm doing the I told you so about this being over, like what CNN, FOX and everyone else wants to believe. But I'm sure this is to high and difficult of a concept for your brain to figure out...Good luck learning reading comprehension.
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posted on
12/21/2001 7:07:18 AM PST
by
Stavka2
To: TigerLikesRooster
That's the problem, even during the Soviet time period, there was a lot of support for the federal Afghan government, if not out of love for the Socialists (who could blame them for a lack of love) out of fear for what would follow with the Soviet withdrawl. (the endless civil war) If you talk to the vets and read the books, it is obvious that much of the public lived in fear...this wasn't Vietnam where the public of S. Vietnam knew (more or less) what they faced when the S. Vietnamese governments collapsed and the US left. They knew they faced life under the N. Vietnamese, and while this might not have been all that fun at least it was a form of stability. All the Afghans faced when the Soviets withdrew and the Federal government collapsed is anarchy.
The issue here is that while you are right about lack of support, you are not totally correct. A substantial enough percentage does support these actions, even if it is 1%. Remember, in Russia, the first Duma only had 2 members of the Soviet Revolutionaries...15 years later they were running the nation as the Bolshaviks.
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12/21/2001 7:11:36 AM PST
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Stavka2
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