Posted on 09/07/2006 11:24:51 PM PDT by HAL9000
Attack close of the US embassy in Kabul: several victims
KABUL - a booby-trapped car exploded Friday close of the American embassy in Kabul making several victims, according to a correspondent of AFP on the spot and organizes it.
The attack occurred on the round not Massoud, in the east of the capital, with a few tens of meters of the embassy of the United States, from which the access is protected by barriers.
"the number of victim seems high", indicated to AFP a police officer on the spot, without being able to give more precise assessment.
At least two victims were evacuated by an ambulance, noted the correspondent of the AFP, which also saw a vehicle in flames.
ROADSIDE BOMB EXPLODES CLOSE TO U.S. EMBASSY IN KABUL, WITNESSES FEAR AT LEAST FOUR KILLED
CNN International showing a lot of damage at the site.
Afghanistan...welcome to terrorism Iraqi/Al Qaeda style...and the hits just keep coming. This has been a concern of mine for quite some time. The fact that we sent 11,000 troops to Afghanistan and 180,000 to Iraq bothers me.
There are more cops in NYC than were ever U.S. troops in Afghanistan. We should have had a minimum of 25,000 boots on the ground and continued the air campaign a few more months as well...just bombing the hell out of the mountains to the north.
NATO and the UN better have a strong stomach.
Has anybody besides me noticed how many times Democrats have mentioned Afghanistan in the last 24 hours?
Can't believe you found that...if you could find the post I made that I was talking about that would be even more spectacular...I remember typing that post out...so vividly.
No, but if true what are you trying to get at?
Of course...with the recent stories on CNN about how the Taliban is alive and well and now IED attacks on the rise...they are salivating for Iraq Part II...it fits in with their arguments that Rumsfeld did not send enough troops to Afghanistan...and Howlin..I hate Liberals more than anything...but on that issue...they are right.
I support the Iraq war and will continue to do so no matter how ungrateful half the country over there and here is about the presence of the U.S. , but...there should have been a much bigger presence of troops along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border trapping and surrounding the Taliban and Al Qaeda like bugs and it should have happened the day after 9-11...not 6-7 weeks.
I am not sure if Jim deleted the thread I had written..a lot of pre-9-11 stuff vanished...and we got into the "Loose Lips" phase of FR.
CNN - The target of the attack was a U.S. Humvee.
It's concerted.
Two coalition soldiers killed in Kabul bomb blast
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08/09/2006 - 07:57:03
A massive explosion today near the US Embassy in the Afghan capital tore apart a military vehicle and killed at least three people, including two US-led coalition soldiers.
Ali Shah Paktiawal, criminal director of Kabul police, said the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber.
The explosion blew a military vehicle into two burning chunks and scattering debris and body parts over a 50-yard radius.
US soldiers and heavily-armed American security forces cordoned off the scene.
It makes it easier for them. They seem to be incapable of coming up with any original thoughts on their own.
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THe Spanish press says that at least 16 people were killed.
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