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  • U.S. fire scatters crowd after Afghan bomb: witness (Reuters reporter quotes himself!!)

    09/27/2007 8:36:37 PM PDT · by KOZ. · 11 replies · 150+ views
    Reuters ^ | Thu Sep 27, 2007 | Noor Mohammad Sherzai
    BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said. A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in the village of Bati Kot, 15 km (9 miles) east of Jalalabad, killed the driver, two passengers and a nearby civilian, but none of the soldiers was hurt, the U.S. military said in a statement. Afghan police securing the site in eastern Afghanistan were then attacked by an insurgent dressed in police uniform. He...