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| Afghanistan |
| Four Afghan civilians killed, 10 kidnapped |
| 2009-01-30 |
| A roadside bomb here Wednesday struck a vehicle carrying civilians, killing four and wounding nine, police said. Police blamed the Taliban for planting the mine that caused Tuesday's blast in the Zhari district of the southern Kandahar province, police said in a statement. Gunmen abducted 10 Afghan workers in a daring ambush in Herat while two local UN staff kidnapped allegedly by Taliban militants nearly a month ago were freed, government officials said Wednesday. The abductors raided a private construction company site here Tuesday, snatching an Afghan engineer and nine workers, the interior ministry said. The ministry identified the abductors as 'enemies of Afghanistan' -- a term often used by Afghan officials for Taliban. In the adjacent province of Nimroz, two Afghans working for the World Food Programme (WFP) kidnapped on New Year's Day with four other persons were freed, the provincial governor said. The authorities on Tuesday seized 1,000 kilograms of explosives at the Torkham border that apparently crossed into the country from Pakistan, said the interior ministry. "The explosives were hidden in a car to be used for terrorist activities," it said, adding that one suspect had been arrested. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Why don't Afghanis ask the Taliban Because they're afraid of the Taliban, and because the Taliban are fellow Muslims. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-01-30 07:18 |
| #1 Why don't Afghanis ask the Taliban to pay blood money in cases like this? Why don't they inflate death tolls when the Taliban commit these kinds of acts? Just askin'. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-30 02:06 |