02-17-2008, 09:34 AM
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| At Least 80 Killed in Afghan Bombing
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By TAIMOOR SHAH
Published: February 18, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd gathered at a dogfighting festival just outside this city in southern Afghanistan, killing some 80 people and wounding nearly 100 more in the country’s worst single bombing since 2001.
According to witnesses and officials, the bomber killed a local police chief, Abdul Hakim Jan, a number of his guards and scores of villagers attending the event in the district of Argandab, just north of Kandahar city.
The governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khaled, said the dead numbered 80 and the wounded over 90. A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Kabul, Dr. Abdullah Fahim, said the Kandahar hospital had received 67 bodies. But some families had taken bodies straight home for burial from the scene of the blast, he said.
“This is the action of the enemies of our country,” said Mr. Khaled, the governor. “They do not let Afghans enjoy their lives and have a peaceful life.”
A spokesman for the Taliban, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, denied that the Taliban had carried out the attack and suggested it was the result of internal fighting within the Afghan government. “We did not carry out this blast in Kandahar, we strongly reject that,” he said in a telephone call.
more ... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/wo...rssnyt&emc=rss | Yeah, we know the Taliban would never, EVER think of doing such a thing what with all the other factions in Afghanistan carrying out suicide bombings.
And let's call this what it is ... murder, plain and simple. This isn't an attack on the US. The isn't an attack on the Afghan military. It was an attack that targetted unarmed, civilian noncombatants.
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