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Civilians killed in Afghan blast

Eight civilians and two police officers have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a crowded market in southern Afghanistan.

Asadullah Sherzad, Helmand's police chief, said on Monday the bomber targeted a police vehicle at a market in Musa Qala.

"Ten people including two policemen were killed and another 27, including two policemen, were wounded in the suicide attack today," he said.

Taliban suicide bombers frequently target Afghan and international military forces in their attacks.

But many more Afghan civilians die in such attacks than do government officials or military personnel.

 Source: Agencies
 
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Ayub
Afghanistan
01/12/2008
Yet more civilians killed.
At this point the US has it's work cut out for them.The US doesn't have to murder innocent women and children,the US just contributes with bombings from it's Drones.What a great way to reduce population.Winter is here and the poor Afghans suffering for exactly 30 years now.The US promised to rebuild after the Soviets left and now 30 years later the country is in ruins and civilians being murdered everyday.The cold war ended between the US and USSR because of the Afghans,this is thethankstheyget.

aziz
Afghanistan
01/12/2008
blasts kill Civilians why ?
there are many religious leaders in Olama council {shorai-Olama] in afghanistan but never take decesion that to anounce officially{give fetwa]that sucide attack wether is haram[religiously ban] or no. most of afghan people in the rural area spacially in provinces are strictedly religious and looking to the eyes of their Mawlanas in mosques but in pakistan it is not ban so most of afghan refuges and pakistani youths,are trained for sucide attack sent back to afghanistan .if Shorai-o ban it.nomre

AzadKhan Ahmadzai
Afghanistan
03/12/2008
Why Western do the same thing Taliban do on our civilians?
If we Afgahns set and wait for the Western to bring peace and stop killing in Afghanistan we are really wasting our time. Why Western do the same thing Taliban do on our civilians? This is US and UK who designs to weaken Pashtoons and kill them evolutionary instate of kill them like Hitler in one shot. I thing Western countries supported ISI to bring Taliban on the power by Butho, then kill Pashtoon in the hand of Taliban (a group of stupid Muslims and they don’t know who they are and killin

mumin
Afghanistan
03/12/2008
fatwa? religious ban?
pfft what are u talking about, afghanistan is NOT a shariah law based country. it follows its paganistic comrads(the west) ideological system democracy! what a failure indeed. if the kuffar leave afghanistan and we get a rightious one to establish shariah there wont be no more suicide bombings! afghanistan is too much of a proud nation they dont want outsiders there. no pun intended.

 
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