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Afghanistan
'Turban bomber' wounds Afghan MP
2013-11-30
[Pak Daily Times] A jacket wallah maimed an Afghan politician on Friday by detonating explosives hidden in his turban, officials said, in an attack that echoed the 2011 murder of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
. Hamidullah Tokhi, a politician from Zabul province who previously served as the province's governor, was injured when the man entered his house in the capital Kabul and detonated the bomb. "A man with explosives hidden in his turban let 'er rip while greeting MP Hamidullah Tokhi in the Kart-e-Parwan district of Kabul," deputy interior ministry front man Najib Danish told AFP. "The MP is slightly maimed and he was taken to hospital. We have started our investigation."
Posted by:Fred

#4  Feets got DNA.
Posted by: Fred   2013-11-30 17:45  

#3  This fits the reports that Bombers are recognized because their head is intact, It just blows off.

Now the bombers cannot be easily identified, no head, DNA has to be used.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-11-30 17:05  

#2  I suspect he got a splitting headache

Posted by: Au Auric   2013-11-30 11:28  

#1  Was the turban-bomber injured?
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-11-30 11:25  

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