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
Suicide attack outside NATO base in Kandahar
Suicide bomb outside NATO base in southern Afghanistan kills 1 civilian, wounds 8
Jul 6, 2009
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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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