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Afghanistan
Afghan police chief survives suicide attack
2013-06-18
[Pak Daily Times] The police chief of Afghanistan's volatile Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province survived a suicide kaboom on Monday when his convoy was bombed in the city of Lashkar Gah, officials said. Nabi Ilham's armoured car was badly damaged by the early-morning kaboom in the picturesque provincial capital, and three of his guards were maimed. "At around 7am (0230 GMT) the motorcade was passing through the city. A suicide boom-mobile targeted it," Omar Zwak, the provincial governor's front man, told AFP. "The blast hit the second vehicle in the convoy and slightly hurt three of the guards. The police chief was unhurt." Militants have regularly targeted police and government officials as Afghan forces prepare to take over nationwide security from NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
-led international troops. Last Tuesday, a Taliban suicide boom-mobile killed 15 civilians outside the Supreme Court in Kabul.
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