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| 13 Dead, 20 Hurt in Afghan Police Bus Bombing | ||
| 2011-05-19 | ||
| [An Nahar] Thirteen people were killed and 20 others hurt Wednesday in a suicide car booming against a police bus in eastern Afghanistan claimed by the Taliban, a provincial front man said. "Unfortunately, 13 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a suicide kaboom that targeted a police minivan today," said provincial front man Abdul Zia Ahmadzai. The attack happened at around 4:45 pm (1215 GMT) in the eastern province of Nangarhar, ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... just outside the city of Jalalabad and a few kilometers from Jalalabad airport. The jacket wallah is thought to have rammed his car bomb into the bus carrying police. The attack was claimed by the Taliban.
"The bus was totally destroyed and 25 police trainers were killed. Unfortunately, two civilians were also martyred."
The strike came on the same day that 12 people died during a violent protest in Takhar province, northeast Afghanistan, against a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... -led raid which left four people dead. The protesters and President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai, ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... who condemned the operation, said the four dead were civilians. But the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said they were cut-thoats. | ||
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