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| Afghan Roadside Bomb Kills 7 Civilians |
| 2013-04-16 |
| [An Nahar] A roadside kaboom hit a tractor in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing seven civilians and wounding four others, officials said. The tractor and trailer hit the anti-vehicle mine in the Mali Zai area of Zabul province, the ministry of interior said in a statement. "Seven non-combatants were killed and four other civilians were maimed. The maimed were taken to the hospital by Afghan National Police," the statement said. The details of the blast were not immediately available and no-one has grabbed credit, but roadside kabooms and mines are the weapon of choice for the Taliban, who have led an 11-year insurgency against the government of 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... and its Western allies. A roadside kaboom went kaboom!under an Afghan bus in neighboring Ghazni province on April 8, killing nine civilians and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Talibs. A day before that, a suicide boom-mobileer struck a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... convoy in Zabul, killing three U.S. soldiers and two civilians, including a female American diplomat travelling with Afghan officials to distribute books to students. |
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