"A suicide attacker came out of a truck and blew up his vest outside Bagram airfield (at a gate used by supply vehicles)," provincial governor Abdul Basir Salangi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"As a result, two people are killed and four maimed, all were civilians." A front man for the U.S.-led International Security assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that no soldiers had been killed, adding that reports put the corpse count at between two and five civilians.
"They didn't breach the base. We have blocked off the area with Afghan cops," he said.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said in an SMS message to AFP: "Around 5:00 pm (1230 GMT), one of our fighters attacked the third gate of the Bagram airfield in Dire Revenge™ for the Koran burning
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....
"As a result, a number of Americans were killed and maimed in the attack."
The incident in which Korans were sent to an incinerator pit at the Bagram base two weeks ago ignited days of violent anti-U.S. protests in which some 40 people died, including six U.S. soldiers killed by their Afghan colleagues.
While U.S. President Barack Obama
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has apologized for the incident and street protests have died down, relations between foreign forces and their Afghan allies have hit an all-time low.