Car Bomb Attack Outside Kabul Airport

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Source: Associated Press

Car bomb attack outside Kabul airport

By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
September 08, 2009 1:04 AM EDT
KABUL - A car bomb exploded near the entrance to the military airport in Afghanistan's capital early Tuesday, police said. The blast rattled windows more than a mile away.

The attack appeared to be aimed at an international convoy, said Rohullah, a police official for the area who like many Afghans goes by one name. A witness said he saw the car ram into a line of SUVs.

"I saw three or four Landcruisers for the foreigners just in front of the gate ... then there was a car and it hit them then blew up," said Humayun, who watched the attack from his nearby shop.

There were no official casualty figures, but an Associated Press reporter at the site saw two people carried to ambulances, and Humayun said he saw three injured people being carried away.

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1. Reuters says some casualties, Afghan and foreign troops. nt

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2. Get the US out of Afghanistan Now!

Obama - end this Vietnam

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3. We'll get out of Afghanistan as soon as

we get those two pipelines up and running. Not one minute sooner.

Oh, and as soon as the CIA can reliably control the poppy fields so they can finance their black ops and assassination squads around the world. Gotta make the world safe for corporations......oops, I mean, democracy, doncha' know. :mad:

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4. Suicide car bomb kills four outside Nato airbase in Kabul

A suicide car bomb killed four people and wounded five others at the gates of the Nato airbase in Kabul this morning, just hours after US troops killed two insurgents firing rockets at an American base less than a mile away.

Eyewitnesses said that a Toyota Surf 4x4 exploded at around 8.30am local time, just a few metres from the heavily guarded entrance to the airfield.

“A black 4x4 pulled in front of a truck loaded with bricks and exploded,” said Ahmad Farwad, a security guard who was protected from the blast inside a sandbagged sentry position.

A spokeswoman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance force said that a small number of soldiers suffered “minor injuries”, but she emphasised that no foreign troops were killed. Belgian soldiers normally guard the gate.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6825988.ece