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 Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:31 am Post subject: Afghan Multiple Suicide Bombings |
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Dont know enough about the Taliban but they dont strike me as being into suicide killing. Another report said the Taliban had admitted responsibilty, which again seems a departure.
| Quote: | Dozens Die In Afghan Suicide Bomb Attacks
Four suicide bombers have killed at least 30 civilians and police in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan president's half-brother has said.
Police in Kandahar said the city had been hit by four explosions followed by gunfire.
The blasts were near a hotel, a prison, a mosque and at a crossroads in the centre of Kandahar, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Shad Farooqi said.
President Hamid Karzai's half-brother Ahmad Wali Karzai said the biggest explosion was a suicide strike at Kandahar's prison.
Ahmad Wali Karzai, the head of Kandahar's provincial council, believed insurgents were trying to release prisoners.
"The main target was the prison. The prison is very well guarded," he said.
"It was a very big explosion. It was a huge explosion."
Two of the other blasts took place near the provincial council building, including one about 200 metres from Ahmad Wali Karzai's home.
Another struck near the police chief's headquarters, he said.
The other blasts appeared to be diversions designed to draw police away from the main attack on the prison, he said.
Afghan police and Afghan special forces were deployed, and there was an exchange of gunfire, the police source said.
The head of the city's main hospital said the dead included civilians and police, and dozens more had been wounded.
Kandahar has suffered several Taliban attacks and the surrounding areas are increasingly under the control of insurgents.
US-led forces are planning to launch an operation in the summer to take back the city frrom Taliban control.
Guardian journalist Jon Boone, in Kabul, told Sky News: "The attacks come at a very significant time as Nato and General Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander, are making no secret of the fact that the fight for Kandahar will be one of the main events of the year.
"They will try to contest the city and take away the influence of the Taliban which is very pervasive in Kandahar and the surrounding district.
"If these attacks tell us anything, then the Taliban are saying this is not going to happen without quite a fight indeed." |
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/four_explosions_in_south_afghanis tan_city
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IMO suicide bombers are largly a myth! Just to outline the enemies willingness to fall in war 
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