Don't tell me Ghundal; the Taliban bombed a civilian airport because one of them lost relative to a NATO airstrike right?

At least three people have been killed and five others injured in a large explosion at the entrance of the airport in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, police say.
Provincial police spokesman Hazrad Mohammad said "a very strong'' blast hit the airport in Nangarhar province on Monday morning.
According to Reuters news agency, Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was "revenge" for the burning of copies of the Quran which sparked off deadly protests a week ago.
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The casualties appeared to be civilians, said Obaidullah Talwar, a senior police detective for eastern Nangarhar
province, of which Jalalabad is capital.
More than 30 people have been killed in the violence, including four US soldiers, in the violence following the burning of copies of the Quran in an incinerator pit at Bagram base north of Kabul.
On Sunday, seven US soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack on their base in northern Kunduz province, police said.
President Hamid Karzai went on television on Sunday to appeal for calm.
Karzai "condemned with the strongest words" the treatment of Islam's holy book and said the perpetrators should be punished, but told his countrymen: "Now that we have shown our feelings it is time to be calm and peaceful."
He said he respected the emotions of Afghans upset by the incident, but urged them not to let "the enemies of Afghanistan misuse their feelings".
The Taliban have called on Afghans to kill foreign troops in revenge for the incident, and claimed to have been behind the shooting deaths of the two US advisers in the interior ministry in Kabul on Saturday.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies


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