Two Care Bombs Explode in Kandahar, Killing 2 and Wounding 23

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Source: NYT

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants exploded two car bombs in downtown Kandahar on Thursday evening, killing at least 2 people and wounding 23, local officials said.

Some reports placed the casualty toll higher, however, and officials said the force of the second bomb had collapsed some buildings, potentially burying additional people under the rubble.

The second bomb was directed at a compound housing Western workers, and one report said British citizens had died. But that information could not be verified with the Kandahar authorities.

Four German soldiers were also killed Thursday during a rocket attack by insurgents in the northern province of Baghlan. The deaths brought to 43 the number of soldiers from Germany killed since it entered the Afghan conflict in 2002.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/world/asia/16afghan.html

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Care bombs? I suppose they will fix that soon ...

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1. Four German soldiers killed in Afghanistan's north

Four German troops were killed Thursday in fighting in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province, a one-day toll that is likely to stoke further antiwar sentiment in an important European ally.

Though NATO spokesmen would not release details of the deaths, German defense officials said the four soldiers were killed in fighting that broke out after a German armored vehicle was attacked. Five German soldiers were wounded in the clash.

In the southern city of Kandahar, a suicide car bombing killed at least six people at a compound used by foreign companies. Three of the dead were foreigners and three were Afghan soldiers, said Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is the half brother of President Hamid Karzai and head of the Kandahar provincial council.

Once considered one of the less volatile sections of the country, Baghlan and the rest of the north have become new trouble spots for U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces locked in an 8-year-old war with Taliban insurgents and their allies. The Taliban and other insurgent groups have widened their reach in the north, and have been bolstered by Al Qaeda-linked Chechen and Uzbek fighters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-fg-afghan-violence16-2010apr16,0,2873251.story

[Oregone]

2. Shouldn't Care Bombs spread indiscriminate love?

[customerserviceguy]

3. Only if they are set off

by Care Bears!

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5. Only if they are not precision care bombs. nt

[Political Heretic]

4. Care bomb explodes, 23 wounded by flying Smarties shaped like little hearts

:D

[Yeahyeah]

6. OMG.Obama donated $50,000 to CARE.The Teabaggers will go nutser.

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7. Now "Taliban Seen Behind 2 Car Bomb Attacks in Downtown Kandahar"

Slight improvement.