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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan governor survives bomb attack |
| 2008-02-11 |
| Yeesh! Busy day for terrorists! Fortunately for the most part they have been on the losing end of things. The governor of an important and volatile southern province in Afghanistan escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded by his vehicle convoy, officials said. The bomb, aimed at the convoy of Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid, wounded three civilians, Khalid's office said in a statement. Khalid was not wounded. The blast against Khalid's convoy follows a suicide bomb attack that killed the deputy governor of neighboring Helmand province late last month as he was praying inside a mosque in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. Militants have often attacked governors and other officials affiliated with President Hamid Karzai's government in an attempt to weaken the government's command over the country. Khalid has survived previous assassination attempts. Troops from NATO's International Security Assistance Force, meanwhile, killed an Afghan riding in a car that had driven too close to the soldiers in the western province of Farah, ISAF said in a statement. Troops gave the car's driver warning signals not to approach and fired a warning shot at the ground, ISAF said. "ISAF troops continued on and were later informed by Afghan National Police that their warning shot had ricocheted and injured the car's driver and killed the passenger," the international military alliance said. ISAF said the shot fell within rules of engagement that help protect troops from suicide bombers. |
| Posted by:gorb |