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To: Cindy

3 die, 70 wounded in blast near NATO HQ in Kabul

KABUL – A suicide car bomb exploded near the main gate of the NATO-led international military mission Saturday, killing three Afghans and wounding 70, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
The pinpoint attack penetrated a heavily guarded neighborhood that also houses the U.S. Embassy and Afghan presidential palace just five days before Afghanistan’s nationwide elections.
Bloodied and dazed Afghans wandered the street after the blast, and children — many of whom congregate outside the NATO gate to sell gum to Westerners — were among the wounded. Windows of nearby antique shops were shattered and blood smeared the ground.
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, said three Afghan civilians were killed and 70 wounded in the blast. Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, a U.S. spokeswoman for the NATO-led mission, said the explosion occurred near the gate of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. She had no immediate information on damage to the headquarters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090815/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_explosion


21 posted on 08/14/2009 10:58:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Live free or die.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thank you Jet Jaguar for the additional details.


22 posted on 08/14/2009 11:02:14 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Jet Jaguar
Make no mistake about it, the election of a crypto-muslim as POTUS and the fact that the USA is now led by America hating socialists has emboldened the enemy like nothing else could.

They know they only have to wait us out and continue to terrorize the populace until the marxists in DC take a poll and decide to declare victory, leave, and give the ragheads back their terrorist base.

40 posted on 08/15/2009 3:34:51 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
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