Suicide bomber kills ten in Afghanistan
I find it particularly interesting in the article where it says at least 139 suicide bombers have attacked in 2006.
This is from Forbes.com Please no freedom hating commie comments about how it is Bushs' fault.
Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Afghanistan
By AMIR SHAH 01.23.07, 5:24 AM ET
A bomber blew himself up amid a crowd of workers outside a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 10 and wounding at least 14 others in the deadliest suicide attack in four months, officials said.
The attacker triggered explosives strapped to his chest among the workers as they lined up outside the base in the city of Khost, said Jamal Arsalah, the governor of Khost province.
Maj. Matt Hackathorn, a U.S. military spokesman, said there was no immediate word of any U.S. military casualties.
The governor, who visited the scene shortly after the explosion, said the Afghan casualties were among hundreds of workers waiting to enter the base, known as Camp Salerno, through its main gate.
An Associated Press Television News cameraman saw the bodies of five men, drenched in blood, in the city's military hospital. Relatives of the dead and injured mobbed the hospital seeking news of their loved ones.
Suicide attacks have become much more frequent as Taliban militants have intensified their insurgency against Afghan government and foreign troops backing them. According to U.S. military figures, there were 139 suicide attacks during 2006, up from 27 in 2005.
Tuesday's attack was the deadliest since Sept. 30, when a suicide bomber killed 12 people outside the gates of the Interior Ministry in Kabul.
Khost, south of the capital, is a former al-Qaida stronghold on the mountainous Pakistani border that has been a focus of militant activity. Camp Salerno is the U.S. military's main base in the east and includes an airfield.
Afghan and Western officials say that insurgents use the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan as sanctuaries from where they organize and launch operations in Afghanistan.
However, Pakistan argues that only remnants of Taliban and al-Qaida remain on its side of the border and complain that it gets too little recognition for deploying thousands of troops in the border region. On Monday, a suicide car bomber killed four Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan, across the frontier from Khost.
Senior U.S. officials have warned that fighting in Afghanistan is likely to surge again this spring, as warmer weather clears snow from mountain passes and militants try to weaken the grip of President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government.
This is from Forbes.com Please no freedom hating commie comments about how it is Bushs' fault.
Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Afghanistan
By AMIR SHAH 01.23.07, 5:24 AM ET
A bomber blew himself up amid a crowd of workers outside a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 10 and wounding at least 14 others in the deadliest suicide attack in four months, officials said.
The attacker triggered explosives strapped to his chest among the workers as they lined up outside the base in the city of Khost, said Jamal Arsalah, the governor of Khost province.
Maj. Matt Hackathorn, a U.S. military spokesman, said there was no immediate word of any U.S. military casualties.
The governor, who visited the scene shortly after the explosion, said the Afghan casualties were among hundreds of workers waiting to enter the base, known as Camp Salerno, through its main gate.
An Associated Press Television News cameraman saw the bodies of five men, drenched in blood, in the city's military hospital. Relatives of the dead and injured mobbed the hospital seeking news of their loved ones.
Suicide attacks have become much more frequent as Taliban militants have intensified their insurgency against Afghan government and foreign troops backing them. According to U.S. military figures, there were 139 suicide attacks during 2006, up from 27 in 2005.
Tuesday's attack was the deadliest since Sept. 30, when a suicide bomber killed 12 people outside the gates of the Interior Ministry in Kabul.
Khost, south of the capital, is a former al-Qaida stronghold on the mountainous Pakistani border that has been a focus of militant activity. Camp Salerno is the U.S. military's main base in the east and includes an airfield.
Afghan and Western officials say that insurgents use the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan as sanctuaries from where they organize and launch operations in Afghanistan.
However, Pakistan argues that only remnants of Taliban and al-Qaida remain on its side of the border and complain that it gets too little recognition for deploying thousands of troops in the border region. On Monday, a suicide car bomber killed four Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan, across the frontier from Khost.
Senior U.S. officials have warned that fighting in Afghanistan is likely to surge again this spring, as warmer weather clears snow from mountain passes and militants try to weaken the grip of President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government.
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The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. 0 -
Nobody wins a war with sucide bombers. Its a last ditch attempt to scare people, but it has zero effect on the actual running of the country.
Only the media has determined that we are losing the war if sucide bombers continue to attack. Its totally stupid! Let them kill themselves, it thins the herd of dumbos!
We own the country. Sucide bombers are playing on your worst fears and the American public is buying into the game. I understand it results in the death of inocents but that works against them in the long run, they are killing their own people! They can't kill enough people to change the leadership of who is running the country, so why is everyone freaking out???????0 -
quote:Please no freedom hating commie comments about how it is Bushs' fault.Then I suppose it was the Tooth Fairy that removed Special Forces from Afghanistan when we had the Taliban and Al Qaeda on the run? 0
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