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Comrade Grumpy

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Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:25 AM Sep 2012

Suicide bomber targets foreigners in Kabul

Source: Al Jazeera

A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people, nine of them foreigners, officials said, in an early-morning attack claimed by an armed group which said it struck to avenge an anti-Islam film.

A number of those killed on Tuesday were foreign workers for an international courier company, a senior police source said, and one was an Afghan translator.

"At around 6:45 am [0215 GMT] a suicide bomber using a sedan blew himself up along the airport road in District 15. As a result, nine workers of a foreign company and three Afghan civilians are dead, and two police are wounded," police said in a statement.

An Afghan and a Western security official said nine foreigners were killed.



Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/201291831757273.html

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Suicide bomber targets foreigners in Kabul (Original Post) Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 OP
Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #1
Revenge for the film huh? 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #2

dipsydoodle

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1. Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:22 AM
Sep 2012

(Reuters) - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

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On Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew up a minivan near the airport in the Afghan capital and a spokesman for the Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group claimed responsibility.

"A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video," said militant spokesman Zubair Sediqqi.

The claim will raise fears that anger over the film will feed into deteriorating security as the United States and other Western countries try to protect their forces from a rash of so-called insider attacks by Afghan colleagues.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/uk-protests-idUKBRE88E05720120918

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