Suicide bomb exacts huge toll at Kandahar dogfight

[daleo]

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — The worst attack in Afghanistan's rising insurgency has killed a major police commander and his men, weakening Kandahar's defences and rattling the confidence of an already frightened city.

Bloodstains, sandals, and hunks of flesh littered a rocky field on the city's western outskirts where an explosion ripped through a crowd yesterday morning.

Hundreds of men had gathered in the first warm days of the season to watch a dogfight, a popular sporting event, when witnesses saw a suicide bomber push his way into the throng.

Most estimates of the dead were far higher than the Interior Ministry's official count of 65: The hospital registered at least 74; Kandahar's governor said 80; and local health and security sources put the number at between 105 and 125.

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I don't know about getting mixed up in a civil war where the "good guys" consider dog fights to be a sporting event.

[Canadian_moderate]

1. can you just accept cultural differences

;o) Just kidding around. Does seem like poetic justice though.