Free Republic

A SUICIDE car bomber was killed today close to a base for US troops serving with a NATO-led peacekeeping mission in western Afghanistan when his bomb went off too soon, a provincial governor said. The governor of Farah province, Izatullah Wasifi, said the suicide attacker was killed in a car he was driving just a few hundred metres from a base used by US troops serving with the NATO mission. "We do not know the target of the attack, but we can say it was a suicide raid and there were no other casualties apart from the suicide car bomber,"...