Afghan suicide bomber 'kills 10'

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4 April 2012 Last updated at 04:19 ET Share this page



Afghan suicide bomber 'kills 10'


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A suicide bomb attack in northern Afghanistan has left at least 10 people dead, officials say.
Sources told the BBC the bomber had targeted a meeting of officials in Maymana, capital of Faryab province.
Dozens of people were hurt, a number of them critically. Most of the foreign forces in Faryab are Norwegians but a spokesman for the country's army told AFP none of its troops were nearby.
Attacks in northern Afghanistan are far less common than in the south and east.
Nato on Wednesday announced separately that three of its soldiers had been killed in three attacks on Tuesday.
Strategic partnership A former MP, Haji Ahmad Khan, told the BBC: ''There was a meeting. A big function in Maymana close to a main market. The suicide attacker got inside the meeting and attacked. There is blood everywhere. There are body parts scattered.''
A senior police official in Maymana added: ''The suicide attacker was on foot. Most of those killed and injured are local shopkeepers."
A spokesman for the regional Afghan command said two women and two children were among the dead.
There are some 130,000 Nato-led troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, with most due to be withdrawn by the end of 2014.
Nato and the government of President Hamid Karzai are still working on a strategic partnership agreement on Nato involvement after that date.
The Taliban have continued their campaign of gun and bomb attacks on Nato forces this year.
The number of incidents rose after the burning of Korans by US troops at base in February.

[Afghanistan2010]

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[Afghanistan2010]

A suicide bomber attacked foreign military forces in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 12 people, officials said, as NATO's fatalities for the year passed the 100 mark.
"A suicide bomber targeted a group of foreign friends" near a park in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province, provincial governor Abdul Haq Shafaq told AFP. "They were military. There are casualties, dead and wounded."
Faryab, which borders Turkmenistan, is far from centres of the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan's south and east, although the Islamist militia are present in some areas of the province and it suffers sporadic attacks.
NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said two service members died after an explosion in northern Afghanistan, but refused to confirm whether it was the same incident.
There were conflicting reports about the exact death toll and the identity of the victims after the suicide bomber blew himself up on a motorcycle.
Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, police spokesman for northern Afghanistan, described the blast as "powerful" and said six civilians and four policemen were killed, with 20 people wounded including four police.
"A suicide bomber with a suicide vest full of explosives and on a explosive-laden motorcycle targeted some foreign forces near a UN compound in Maymana," he said.
Most foreign troops in Faryab are Norwegian and Lieutenant Colonel John Espen Lien, a spokesman for Norway's armed forces, told AFP there were "at least 12 killed, but this number is not definitive".
No Norwegian ISAF personnel were nearby at the time, he added.
Earlier, provincial police chief Abdul Khaliq Aqasai told AFP that US troops had told him four of their personnel had also died.
A doctor at the town's hospital said the bodies of five civilians had been brought in, and 26 people were wounded.
The "foreign friends" group had visited the police headquarters in Faryab before going to the park to carry out filmed interviews with local residents, the governor said.
The Taliban could not immediately be reached for comment.
Norway contributes a little over 400 soldiers to ISAF's 130,000 troops, who are helping Hamid Karzai's government fight a decade-long Taliban insurgency.
NATO is scheduled to hand responsibility for security across the country over to Afghan authorities and withdraw most combat troops by the end of 2014.
Relations between the allies have been strained this year by a series of killings of Western troops by Afghan security personnel, a massacre of 17 civilians blamed on a US soldier and the burning of Korans at a US base.
Night raids by special forces against insurgent hideouts have triggered popular anger and long been a source of friction with Karzai, who has denounced the NATO operations as reckless.
But US officials said Tuesday Washington and Kabul were close to an agreement to give Afghans more authority over the operations, calling for Afghan judges to issue warrants for the raids and putting Afghans in the lead on the ground.
Such a deal could remove the last obstacle to final negotiations on a long-term security agreement, which US officials hope to ink in time for a NATO summit in May in Chicago.
The Faryab attack came as the number of NATO troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year passed 100, according to an AFP count based on the independent icasualties.org website.
The war has cost the West hundreds of billions of dollars and almost 3,000 lives so far. The United States has suffered the most deaths at 1,924, according to icasualties, with Britain next on 407.
ISAF declined to confirm the total figure for 2012, which is slightly lower than in 2011, when 109 troops had been killed by the end of March, again according to icasualties.org.
ISAF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings said that across Afghanistan, insurgent attacks fell by nine percent in 2011 and in January and February they were down 22 percent.
"Every month since May 2011, there have been fewer enemy-initiated attacks than in the same period the year before," he said. "This is the longest sustained downward trend recorded by ISAF."
In February, the United Nations said civilian deaths from Afghanistan's decade-long civil war reached a record high in 2011.
A total of 3,021 civilians died -- mostly at the hands of insurgents -- up eight percent from 2,790 in 2010, according to its annual report.

[faye]

slight overcompensation. drooling again.

[Afghanistan2010]

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GRAPHIC* Suicide Bomber Aftermath

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[randolph85]

don't these idiots realize that using a gun does the same damage minus the dead civilians caught in the blast?

[badmash_khel]

^
It doesn't.

[randolph85]

if you can get close enough to someone to blow them up, you can shoot them. its what the mujahadin did in the 80s and it worked well. the afghan doing the shooting will eventually get shot to death, but at least he aimed at military targets and he would of died anyways either way. if you go to afghanistan you can see these soldiers just standing around like sitting ducks. drive by shootings would be far more effective and save civilian lives than idiotic suicide bombings.

do you really think the bomb makers have an idea of the blast radius of whatever material they are using for the explosives, or that the one doing the blowing up would use that data to effectively get into the right position to cause maximum damage to the enemy while avoiding civilians? their fight is legit, their tactics are idiotic and haram, i'll curse them now and let Allah judge them later.

[badmash_khel]

if you can get close enough to someone to blow them up, you can shoot them. its what the mujahadin did in the 80s and it worked well. the afghan doing the shooting will eventually get shot to death, but at least he aimed at military targets and he would of died anyways either way. if you go to afghanistan you can see these soldiers just standing around like sitting ducks. drive by shootings would be far more effective and save civilian lives than idiotic suicide bombings.

do you really think the bomb makers have an idea of the blast radius of whatever material they are using for the explosives, or that the one doing the blowing up would use that data to effectively get into the right position to cause maximum damage to the enemy while avoiding civilians? their fight is legit, their tactics are idiotic and haram, i'll curse them now and let Allah judge them later.

I agree completely. I don't agree with such tactics especially when teenagers and kids are involved. They underestimate the harm it does to their image.

[Khostai]

But Talibs think if Afghans are close to the soldiers they are also kafir and must be killed they don't see them as humans that's way they make suicide bombs and by the way since when does taliban care about civilians they didn't care back then and they surrely wouldn't care now.

[Afghanistan2010]

don't these idiots realize that using a gun does the same damage minus the dead civilians caught in the blast?

I have no reports on civilian casualties...just about some guards and afghan forces and foreign invaders.

[Afghanistan2010]

I agree completely. I don't agree with such tactics especially when teenagers and kids are involved. They underestimate the harm it does to their image.

The usage of underaged teenagers is something not allowed in islam,but they are allowed to fight when they got beard (older than 15),but self sacrificing attack is something just for those who have enough knowledge of warefare and there is no other posibility to target and inflict higher casualties on the enemy ( not civilians or non combatants).

[faye]

so, 2010, you learned all these rules of warfare, in the field?

[Afghanistan2010]

so, 2010, you learned all these rules of warfare, in the field?

Im born to a nation of warriors,and soldiers.

I don't know if you know afghan,but yes im afghan.

The rules of engagement are in the Quran and authentic Sunnah (sayings and tradition of the Prophet (pbuh) )