| Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| Bomb blast in Kabul near NATO base, embassies |
| 2014-01-05 |
[GOOGLE] A bomb went kaboom!in central Kabul on Saturday evening in a district housing several embassies and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's military headquarters, but no casualties were immediately reported, officials said. The apparent myrmidon strike was the second of the day in Afghanistan after a NATO soldier was killed when six Taliban suicide kaboomers tried to storm a joint Afghan-NATO base in the eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. . "There was an improvised bomb in the vicinity of Camp Eggers in Kabul," a spokeswoman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force told AFP. "Initial reporting does not indicate any ISAF casualties." Camp Eggers is an ISAF base close to the US embassy and the Afghan presidential palace. Afghan police and ISAF troops cordoned off the scene as the US embassy sounded its alarm sirens. Afghan officials said they had no details of casualties after the blast. |
| Posted by:Fred |