Breaking: 90 Reported Killed in Afghan Bombing - (50 wounded and counting...)

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90 Reported Killed in Afghan Bombing

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-afghan-violence.html?hp

By REUTERS
Published: November 6, 2007

Filed at 8:02 a.m. ET

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) -

A suicide bomber killed 90 people and wounded 50 on Tuesday in an attack on a delegation of visiting
parliamentarians in the northern Afghan town of Baghlan, the director of the local hospital said.

"The bodies of 90 people have been brought to the hospital so far and 50 people have been wounded,"
Baghlan hospital director Dr. Khalilullah told Reuters.

Five parliamentarians, including opposition spokesman Mostafa Kazemi, were among those killed, the
provincial governor said. Baghlan's intelligence chief, Abdurrahman Sayedkhail, said the number of
casualties was so high it was impossible to give an accurate number for now.

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1. Update....The suicide attack, in the northern town of Baghlan, is the worst in Afghanistan's history

90 Reported Killed in Afghan Bombing

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-afghan-violence.html?hp

"I saw bodies lying in the streets and some of the people were stealing the weapons of the dead soldiers.
Children are screaming for help. It's like a nightmare," said local resident Mohammad Rahim who said the blast
had killed his two cousins, both schoolgirls.

The attack took place as the delegation was visiting a sugar factory in the industrial part of the town of Baghlan.
Large crowds of residents and schoolchildren crowded the visiting parliamentarians who were on an economic
fact-finding mission.

Northern Afghanistan has escaped much of the violence which has wracked other parts of the country since the
Taliban relaunched their insurgency against the Kabul government and the 50,000 foreign troops in the country.

The hardline Islamist Taliban have killed more than 200 people in more than 130 suicide attacks so far this year
in a campaign of violence aimed at convincing Afghans their government and its Western backers are incapable
of providing security.

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2. This Week In Afghanistan....

http://www.icasualties.org/oef/

11/06/07 Reuters: 90 Reported Killed in Afghan Bombing
A suicide bomber killed 90 people and wounded 50 on Tuesday in an attack on a delegation
of visiting parliamentarians in the northern Afghan town of Baghlan, the director of the
local hospital said.

11/05/07 fijitimes: Fijian warrior trains Afghan troops
Awarrior in British Army, Lance Corporal Tikiko Naciqa, affectionately known as Tix, is
legendary on both sides of his Fijian heritage. His father, retired Superintendant Tikiko
Naciqa's family hails from the Davutukia tribe in the upper...


11/05/07 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt.1st Class Johnny C. Walls, 41, of Bremerton, Wash., died Nov. 2 in Uruzgan, Afghanistan,
of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire during combat
operations. He was assigned to the 1st Brigade...

11/05/07 Reuters: Taliban capture third western Afghan district
Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials
said on Monday, defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military
offensives.


11/05/07 AFP: At least 25 Taleban reported killed in southern Afghanistan
Afghan and international security forces killed 25 Taleban in an area of southern Afghanistan
that has witnessed days of deadly clashes, officials said Sunday. The 25 were killed Saturday
in an operation by Afghan police and soldiers...


11/05/07 nationalpost: Afghan 'soft target' getting tougher
The predominately Push-toon province of Maidan-Wardak, which guards the southern approaches
to Kabul, has a warrior tradition going back centuries. But it has been an oasis of calm the
past few years, as the Taliban have been off...


11/05/07 Xinhua: Afghan troops destroy 6 heroin labs
Afghan troops backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces have destroyed six heroin labs
in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, local police said Monday.


11/04/07 Xinhua: Afghan police kill 25 Taliban militants in S. Afghanistan
Afghan police backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces killed 25 Taliban insurgents Saturday
in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, said a statement of Afghan Interior Ministry
released here on Sunday.


11/04/07 AP: 4 police, 25 militants killed in violence in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb blast killed four Afghan police on Sunday, while 25 militants were said
to be killed in a clash in the country's south, officials said.


11/04/07 AP: Better health care for Afghan children
Close to 90,000 children who would have died before age 5 in Afghanistan during Taliban
rule will stay alive this year because of advances in medical care in the country, Afghan
President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.


11/04/07 RFE/RL: Armed Northern Militias Complicate Afghan Security
Much of the world's attention on Afghanistan is now focused on the country’s Pashtun-dominated
south and east, where Taliban fighters are battling NATO troops and U.S.-led coalition forces.
But there is a different kind of tension...


11/03/07 AP: 2 Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
A U.S.-led coalition soldier and an Afghan soldier were killed Friday in clashes
with insurgents in southern Afghanistan, a coalition statement said.


11/03/07 Xinhua: Two Afghans found beheaded in central Afghanistan
Beheaded bodies of two Afghans, who were abducted by suspected militants days ago, have been
found in Rashidan district of central Afghanistan's Ghazni province, the provincial police
chief said Saturday


11/03/07 KUNA: Taliban execute Afghan woman for spying
Suspected Taliban militants have killed a woman on charges of spying for the Afghan
government and the foreign troops, locals and Afghan officials said on Saturday.


11/03/07 AFP: Dutch NATO soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
Corporal Ronald Groen is the 12th Dutch soldier killed in Afghanistan, either
accidentally or in combat.


11/03/07 mindef: NEDERLANDSE MILITAIR OMGEKOMEN
Tijdens de operatie “Spin Ghar” in Afghanistan is de 21 jarige korporaal Ronald Groen gesneuveld.
Het gepantserde Fennek – verkenningsvoertuig waarin hij zat, reed ongeveer vijf kilometer ten
noordwesten van de patrouillebasis...


11/03/07 Reuters: Dutch soldier killed in Afghanistan
A 21-year old Dutch soldier was killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan and two others
were wounded in the incident, the Dutch military said.


11/02/07 ntnews: Another Australian seriously wounded by a roadside bomb
Sergeant Michael Lyddiard was serving with the reconstruction task force when the bomb was discovered.
"He was in the process of attempting to render the device safe when it detonated,'' ...


11/02/07 CanWest: Canadian soldier wounded as Afghan situation remains tense
A Canadian soldier was wounded in an explosion Friday as he patrolled a district north
of Kandahar City, where heavy fighting has been seen in recent days. Several hours after
the attack, the soldier was listed in fair condition...


11/02/07 Reuters: Canadian troops halt Taliban Afghan offensive
Canadian forces have halted a Taliban offensive to take a key district guarding the approaches
to Afghanistan's main southern city of Kandahar, a spokesman said on Thursday.


11/02/07 CBC: Taliban commander vows to launch intense winter campaign
A top Taliban commander has pledged in a recorded interview to launch an intense winter
campaign against NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.


11/02/07 AP: Pakistan militants killed in missile attack near Afghan border
A missile destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan
border Friday, killing 10 people inside and wounding 11, security officials said.


11/02/07 AP: Two NATO soldiers killed, three wounded in eastern Afghan clash
Officials in Afghanistan say insurgents ambushed NATO-led forces in the eastern part
of the country leaving two alliance troops dead and three others wounded.


11/01/07 UPI: Polish soldier injured in Afghanistan (part 2)
Maj. Miroslaw Ochyra, a spokesman for the Polish military contingent, said the officer
-- whose identity was given as Capt. Artur R. -- suffered leg injuries in an explosion
of a land mine trap, Polish Radio reported Wednesday.


11/01/07 UPI: Polish soldier injured in Afghanistan (part 1)
A Polish soldier serving with NATO’s international forces in Afghanistan was injured
when a convoy he was traveling in ran into a land mine.


11/01/07 Bloomberg: Afghan Soldiers Kill Rebel Commander Crossing From Pakistan
Afghan security forces killed a rebel commander and several of his men as they crossed
the border from Pakistan, the U.S. military said.


11/01/07 AP: Japan ends mission supporting coalition in Afghanistan
Japanese warships were ordered home from the Indian Ocean Thursday after opposition lawmakers
refused to support an extension of their mission supporting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.


11/01/07 AP: 2 Children Die in US Raid in Afghanistan
A nighttime raid in eastern Afghanistan by U.S. and Afghan troops sparked a gunbattle that
killed three people, including two children, and the military said Thursday it is investigating
the deaths.


11/01/07 AP: Six policemen killed in Afghanistan
Nighttime brings new victims of the Afghan war. Three people, including 2 children, were killed
in a gunbattle sparked during a raid on a compound in eastern Afghanistan and six policemen were
left dead in clashes with Taliban in the west.


11/01/07 AP: Hundreds of Afghan villagers flee amid violence
Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks Wednesday and fled two villages infiltrated
by hundreds of Taliban militants outside Afghanistan’s second-largest city. U.S., Canadian
and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded.


11/01/07 Reuters: Taliban overrun another Afghan district
Taliban rebels have overrun a district centre in western Afghanistan as fighting took place
in a nearby area captured earlier this week, a provincial official said on Thursday.


11/01/07 Reuters: Canadian troops halt Taliban Afghan offensive
Canadian forces have halted a Taliban offensive to take a key district guarding the
approaches to Afghanistan's main southern city of Kandahar, a spokesman said on Thursday.


11/01/07 BBC: Police hunt for Taleban fighters
Afghan police in Kandahar province have been searching houses for Taleban fighters after
three days of clashes with Afghan and Nato-led forces. Many Taleban fighters escaped from
Arghandab district, just north of Kandahar city on Wednesday night.


10/31/07 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. James D. Bullard, 28, of Marion, S.C., died Oct. 30 in Spearwan Ghar, Afghanistan,
of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using RPG rounds, machine gun fire, mortars
and small arms fire during combat operations.


10/31/07 Guardian: Allied forces kill 50 Taliban
Afghan, US and Canadian troops have surrounded around 250 Taliban fighters who
commandeered people's homes near Kandahar city, a senior police official said today.


10/31/07 AP: 250 Taliban surrounded outside Kandahar
Afghan, U.S. and Canadian troops have surrounded a pocket of some 250 Taliban fighters who
have commandeered people's homes in villages just outside Afghanistan's major southern city,
officials said Wednesday.


10/31/07 CP: Canadians battle Taliban north of Kandahar
A key area just north of Kandahar city city has become a major battleground between the
Taliban and coalition forces including Canadians, military authorities said Wednesday.

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3. Canada's Defense Minister under fire in Afghanistan

Canada's Defense Minister under fire in Afghanistan

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/07/content_7023045.htm

2007-11-07 02:43:07

OTTAWA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) --

Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay was under fire Tuesday when the Canadian military base
near Kandahar he was visiting was attacked by two Taliban rockets, local media reported.

MacKay was unhurt during the attacks on the forward operating base located 20 kilometers west of
Kandahar, a reporter for national newspaper "Globe and Mail" said from the southern Afghan city.

After the first rocket landed around 11 a.m. local time, MacKay was taken into an armored vehicle
and transported to Kandahar air field shortly.

Four soldiers were lightly injured when the second rocket hit 15 minutes later.

It was unclear if the Taliban had any idea about MacKay's visit, the reporter said.

MacKay, who is in Afghanistan to trumpet Canada's achievements there, said he will continue the visit.

Canada has 2,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan.

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4. Reuters Update: Suicide bomber kills 50 in northern Afghanistan

Suicide bomber kills 50 in northern Afghanistan

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSHAR65875620071106

Tue Nov 6, 2007 4:29pm EST

By Tahir Qadiry

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) -


A suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation killed at least 50 people in northern Afghanistan
on Tuesday, a provincial official said, in the worst such blast in the country's history.

Five members of the Afghan parliament were among the dead and the toll was expected to rise.
Schoolchildren were also among the victims in the town of Baghlan in the north of the country
which had so far escaped the worst of Afghanistan's worsening violence.

"We have recorded 50 people dead so far, but there are still bodies on the streets we have not
counted and some of the dead have already been taken away by their relatives," Baghlan provincial
security chief Abdurrahman Sayedkhail told Reuters.

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