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Afghanistan
Bomb explodes in Afghanistan mosque; 16 wounded
2003-06-30
A bomb ripped through a mosque in southern Kandahar on Monday as worshippers gathered for the final prayer of the day, wounding 16 people, four of them seriously. No one claimed responsibility for the remote-controlled bomb, which was hidden beneath a vest in the mosque, said Mullah Abdullah Fayaz. Fayaz and local officials said they suspected militants from the former Taliban regime or their allies placed the bomb because he had condemned their interpretation of Islam. "Mullah Fayaz said the Taliban were not following Islam and that their interpretation of Islam was wrong," Kandahar police chief Mohammed Akram said. "This is the important thing and the reason they probably attacked Mullah Fayaz's mosque."
That'd be my guess
Mine, too. "If you can't out-argue them, kill 'em. Ah, what the hell? Just kill 'em!"
Akram said he had offered Fayaz additional protection, but the religious leader declined. Fayaz is head of Kandahar's religious council, which is aligned with President Hamid Karzai's government. The attack may also have been a warning to Afghans to stop working with the government, he said.
This being Afghanistan, the list of possible reasons is endless.
Akram said the owner of the vest was a cook, who had been hired a week earlier. He has been taken into police custody for questioning, Akram said.
He better have a really good story.
Posted by:Steve

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