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| Afghan blasts kill five as Hollande visits |
| 2012-05-26 |
| [Dawn] Five kabooms in Afghanistan Friday killed five people and maimed at least 11, officials said, as French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France... visited to discuss the early withdrawal of troops. Two passengers died and three were maimed when a bus struck a roadside kaboom in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, said Daud Ahmadi, the Helmand government front man. "It was a bomb planted by the enemy," he said, referring to Taliban forces of Evil trying to bring down President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's Western-backed government. In the same province, a man was killed and two children were maimed by an improvised bomb, NATO's ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... International Security Assistance Force reported. "These are examples of how the forces of Evil plant IEDs with a complete disregard for the safety of innocent civilians," said Lt. Col. Stewart Upton, spokesperson for ISAF's Regional Command Southwest. In southern Uruzgan province, a roadside kaboom killed a police officer and injured three others, while a local police commander was killed in neighbouring Kandahar province, Afghan officials said. And in the Afghanistan-Pakistain border town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province, a jacket wallah on a cycle of violence maimed a policeman and two civilians, local government front man Jawed Faisal told AFP. La Belle France has some 3,550 troops serving in the 130,000-strong NATO force fighting the Taliban insurgency, but Hollande has pledged to bring them home by the end of this year -- two years ahead of his Western allies. The French leader met French troops in the eastern province of Kapisa and held talks with Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai in Kabul. |
| Posted by:Fred |