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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Mosque attacker was a Soddy |
| 2005-06-02 |
| A Saudi citizen was the suicide bomber who blew himself up at a mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing some 21 people, including the Kabul police chief, the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, reported Thursday, citing the Kandahar press. The bomber was identified after his remains were analysed, the reports said. Shortly after the attack, Afghan officials, including the governor of Kandahar, said they believed it had been carried out by a member of al-Qaeda, of Arab origin, because of the documents found on the bomber's body. The attack happened at the end of a ceremony to pay respects to the senior anti-Taliban cleric Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz, who was murdered by two men on a motorbike, as he left his office on Sunday. Witnesses say the bomber was dressed in a police uniform and helped the police chief, General Mohammed Akram, by pretending to prepare his shoes for him as the mourners filed out of the service, before detonating his explosives. The Afghan police are now looking for possible accomplices who helped prepare the attack, which was the worst Afghanistan has suffered this year. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 find all 18-35 yr old non-locals and execute them.....overkill, but effective |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-02 21:51 |
| #3 Ir ought to be fairly easy to round up non-Pashtu speaking Arabs in Kabul. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-06-02 20:45 |
| #2 I called it yesterday. Not that it was much of a reach. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-06-02 16:47 |
| #1 Quelle surprise. Of course he was. The worthless loser. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-02 16:36 |