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| Suicide bomber in police uniform kills 9 Afghans |
| 2009-03-30 |
| A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine people and wounding eight others, an official said. Five officers and four civilians died in the attack in Dund district, about 10 miles (15 kilometers) south of Kandahar city, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Canadian soldiers and Afghan police stood guard at the blast site and ordered journalists not to take photos, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force said he would investigate the report. "Clancy! Get a shot of the guts on the windshield!" "I'd rather you didn't do that, eh?" The Canadian soldiers refused to let Afghan police approach the blast site, the reporter said. "Stand back, hosers! If you're gonna launch into the Great Beyond, do it amongst yourselves!" Kandahar is the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban and continues to be a militant stronghold. No it's not. It's a stronghold, but the Taliban were "born" at Jamia Binori. They hit the big time by chasing Gul Agha Sherzai out of Kandahar. Afghan police frequently suffer from Taliban attacks from roadside and suicide bombs. But they don't always dress up in police costumes prior to detonating. A roadside bomb also killed three police in the eastern province of Paktia on Monday, the ministry said. |
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