Suicide attack outside NATO base in Kandahar

Suicide bomb outside NATO base in southern Afghanistan kills 1 civilian, wounds 8
 
 
 

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(KABUL, Afghanistan) A suicide car bomber struck early Monday outside the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan, killing a civilian and wounding eight other people, as U.S. Marines pressed a major anti-Taliban offensive in a neighboring province.

The bomber blew himself up near the gates of Kandahar Airfield, border police commander Gen. Saifullah Hakim said. Those wounded included four civilians and four Afghan soldiers, he said.

The attack came as thousands of U.S. Marines in neighboring Helmand province mounted a major offensive against the Taliban. Over the weekend, insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the province, a militant stronghold and hub of the vast Afghan drugs trade.

It wasn't clear if the British casualties had been involved in the Marine operation. A total of 174 British personnel have died in Afghanistan since 2001, when U.S.-led forces first entered the country to oust the hardline Taliban regime.

The Islamist militia has bounced back and now has effective control of large chunks of the volatile south and east of the country, undermining Afghanistan's fledgling democracy. This August, Afghanistan is due to hold its second presidential elections since the Taliban's ouster.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Helmand offensive is "the first significant one" since President Barack Obama ordered 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to try to reverse the militant gains.

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  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/09/2009 8:14:33 AM

    the afghan massacres make the american and afghan army the greatest terrorists on the globe today -their atrocities belittle what the red army did in the eighties and nature will not absolve these two terrorist states as god never forgives spillinig of innocent blood .-contemptible and cowaedly

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/08/2009 1:08:30 PM

    by tomorrow they will claim that al qaeda killed the afghani civilians to turn the civilians against the NATO -LOLZ
    AND whats with the worst massacre since 2001 -there have been many worst and larger then these -
    i recently read the accounts of the brit majors who confessed they have unintentionally killed a lot of villagers -may the lord forgive the sinners amen

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 04/14/2009 6:47:05 PM

    taleban killed them for a crime of passion -MAYBE HOLLYWOOD SHOULD CHURN OUT A TRASHY BLOCKBUSTER to indulge the american sense and sensibility over american juicial system -
    WHERE OJ SIMPSON RULEZ THE ROOST AND WALKS OUT OF A MISTRIAL AFTER A GLOBAL TELEVISED DOUBLE MURDER TO GLORIFY THE -
    AMERICAN FAIR LAW AND JUSTICE WHILE KENNEDYS DATE RAPE AND THEN MAKE A MOCKERY OF THEIR RAPE VICTIMS IN AMERICAN COURTS on the great american media which televises the dogs and rape trials of the rich for the benefit of the bourgeios to educate the intellectual american masses -
    I AM just speculating as to whether the taleban were inspired in their mis demeanour by the perverse travesty of the fiendish examples set as an awesome examplary deed of inspiration inspiration by their inglorious invading alien allies

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