Suicide attack targets foreign troops in Kabul

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Suicide attack targets foreign troops in Kabul

The Taliban has said it carried out the attack in Kabul
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A suicide bomber has attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Kabul killing at least three civilians and a police officer, officials say.
A Nato spokesman said some of its forces were also among the casualties but gave no further details.
The attack happened in the Darulaman area in the west of the city, near the national museum.
The Taliban sent a text message to media outlets shortly after the bombing saying it carried out the attack.
A reporter with AP news agency at the scene said Nato helicopters had taken away casualties.
Police said the bomb had been in a car and was detonated at 11:20 (06:50 GMT).
Witnesses said vehicles were burning at the site.
"It was a very strong bomb," said one eyewitness, Gulam Saki.
"Three civilians were killed - a man, a woman and one child - and two bodies are still under the vehicles."
In a statement, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said: "Initial reports indicate that there has been a vehicle-borne IED (bomb) attack today against a coalition vehicle in Kabul."
The attack happened near Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of Afghanistan's former kings on the south-west outskirts of the capital.
There has been an increase in militant attacks across Afghanistan in recent months, despite the presence of more than 130,000 foreign troops.
On Thursday the Taliban said it was behind an attack on a compound housing Western officials and military personnel in the city of Kandahar. The attack was repelled after a 15-hour battle.
The US is planning to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and hand over security to local forces by 2014.

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[Afghanistan2010]

At least 14 people, including foreign forces, were killed when a Taliban car bomber struck a US-run NATO convoy travelling through the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday.
The attacker detonated his Toyota Sedan car late morning in the southwest of the city, and the area was now blocked by Afghan and international forces, said police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai.
At least ten foreign forces, three civilians and a policeman were among the casualties.
' The attack targeted an American NATO bus,' said a Western military official on condition of anonymity. ' There are 10 or 11 people, mostly Americans,' he said, giving the death toll.
Spokesman for the interior ministry Siddiq Siddiqui said that three civilians and a policeman had also been killed but he had no information on foreign forces.
' It was a huge explosion, I saw at least ten bodies of foreign forces taken out of their capsized bus and evacuated by two helicopters,' one witness told AFP at the scene.
Thick black smoke could be seen rising from an inferno still burning at the scene, while fire hoses were putting out another nearby, footage on private television channel Tolo showed.
NATO's coalition forces were seen tending to at least once casualty on the ground, while fire trucks and ambulances, sirens blaring, were on their way to the scene where one charred vehicle could be seen lying on its side.
A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the force could not give further details until further information had been gathered.
The Taliban, fighting Afghan and Western forces to regain control of Afghanistan after ten years of bloody insurgency, claimed responsibility for the attack.
' A suicide car bomb attack was carried out on a bus of foreign forces in the Dar-ul-Aman area of Kabul,' said Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a text message sent to AFP.
At around the same time in the eastern city of Asadabad in Kunar province, a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a local branch of Afghanistan's spy agency, a spokesman for the Kunar provincial governor said.
The woman struck outside the local operations centre for the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said spokesman Wasifullah Wasifi.
' As a result of the explosion two guards of the operative directorate were wounded,' he said.
The attacks come a day after the Taliban launched a four-hour long assault on a US-run civilian-military base and NDS local branch in the southern city of Kandahar, the spiritual birthplace of the insurgent movement.
Earlier in the week it was announced in Kabul that Afghan President Hamid Karzai would next week give a list of areas in up to 17 provinces that will soon see a handover from NATO to Afghan control as Western governments begin to bring troops home with the overall combat mission due to end in 2014.
A regional conference is to be held in Istanbul next week as international backers of Karzai's government push talks with the Taliban aimed at finding peaceable resolution to the long war.

[Afghanistan2010]

US official: 13 Americans killed in Afghan bombing

[ScimitarXEdge]

woman suicide bomber? Cowards, making women do their fighting. Taliban are beghairat

[کیش]

woman suicide bomber? Cowards, making women do their fighting. Taliban are beghairat

How are Taliban Beghairot when they have been fighting NATO now for 10 years? NATO has women soldiers, but the Taliban can't have any?


Beghairot is the one who can't recognize a legitimate Jihad when it's in front of their face.

Oh by legitimate, am talking about the common Afghan who dislikes NATO tanks roaming through their districts.

[Al Hanif]

the free world is amazed by the incredible resistance of the Afghans

your mu'minin are the bravest people on earth

[Toramana]

Please ban this Al-Hanif. He has no right to come here and fan raw sentiments. He should do this on hiw own Arab lands.

[Leonine]

damn these freakin taliban to hell

[Al Hanif]

Please ban this Al-Hanif. He has no right to come here and fan raw sentiments. He should do this on hiw own Arab lands.

the end is coming and you disbelievers see no escape, so you are getting mad

[KhyberKhan]

woman suicide bomber? Cowards, making women do their fighting. Taliban are beghairat

Go join your fellow camel jockeying modernists in the arabic world crying out for democracy and western intervention from arab dictators.

Kind Regards,

Pashtuns.

[Toramana]

Go join your fellow camel jockeying modernists in the arabic world crying out for democracy and western intervention from arab dictators.

Kind Regards,

Pashtuns.

Instead of making him that suggestion, Taleban/terrorist sympatheisers need go immigrate to some ape-land to live in the age of medievalism which the barbaric lot yearns for ----

[KhyberKhan]

The only primitive here seems to be you, Mr Tora-Kwana, who really needs to brush up on both his spelling and grammar.

[Al Hanif]

Instead of making him that suggestion, Taleban/terrorist sympatheisers need go immigrate to some ape-land to live in the age of medievalism which the barbaric lot yearns for ----

"medievalism" vs. British Empire => medievalism plain victory

"medievalism" vs. USSR => medievalism plain victory

"medievalism" vs. USA & the greatest coalition in the world => medievalism plain victory


"islam" vs. <insert here man made ideology> => ISLAM FLAWLESS VICTORY

[Toramana]

The only primitive here seems to be you, Mr Tora-Kwana, who really needs to brush up on both his spelling and grammar.

You little illegimate puppy of Osama or Al-Zawahiri---or product of some Arab harem---you don't know how to talk---

[graveyardofempires]

this tormakhay pe dwaro jahanuno sharmenda has no shame or whatsoever.