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Afghanistan
Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan
2011-12-10
[Dawn] A jacket wallah on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six people including a district police chief, a government official said.
Thus the official Pakistani response to being denounced by Afghans...
The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the Qazi Abad area of Kunar province,
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
which borders Pakistain, said provincial governor Fazullulah Wahidi.

"The attacker detonated his explosives in the mosque, killing the district police chief, an intelligence officer, two police and two civilians," the governor told AFP.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Kunar has been a flashpoint in the Taliban's 10-year insurgency against the Western-backed government and 140,000 US-led foreign troops.

The attack came three days after coordinated attacks on Shia Moslems in the capital Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif killed at least 59 people in an unprecedented assault on the holy day of Ashura.
Posted by:Fred

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