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Suicide bomber attacks police in Afghan market
Afghanistan News.Net
Thursday 15th May, 2008
A suicide bomber has attacked a convoy of police vehicles in south-western Afghanistan, killing 16 people, including a police commander, and wounding 28.
Mohammad Younus Rasouli, deputy governor of Farah province, said the bomber, who had been wearing women's clothes, killed four policemen and 12 civilians in the main market of Farah's Del Aram district, close to the border with Iran.
Rasouli said a police commander was among the four dead.
Officials in the provincial hospital gave the number of wounded as 28 with most being civilians.
Rasouli said 22 people were wounded in the attack.
Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on their website.
The statement said the dead police commander was the target, adding that one of their male fighters by the name of Khalid carried out the attack.
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Jesus
05-16-08, 02:54 AM |
Cowards .. lower than a pig in God's eyes
Killing innocent people, burning down schools.. Better you tie a mill stone around your neck and cast you body in the deepest oceans.. God please have some mercy on their souls.. Love others as i have loved you
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Relm
05-15-08, 10:17 PM |
Suicide bomber attacks police in Afghan market
So the people protest the deaths of 3 civilians killed by coalistion forces...3 deaths too many to be sure...the taliban live and hide behind the skirts of women they hate and the children they abuse. they are cowards who set off a bomb using idiots or someone who has been paid so their family can eat...then they run again and let the women protect them...they blow up mosques, schools...killing hundreds...where is the protest when this occurs...why don’t the afghan people protest against the taliban when the taliban kills their children?
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pumax lagos
05-16-08, 06:12 AM |
inhalf killing
Its about time that killing, must stop.Unity is the word for the people of Afghanistan to work together love one another,put the differences away,this the only solution to stop the killing of innocent people.
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