Suicide Attacker Dies Outside Afghan NATO Base

[WhiteTara]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-afghan-violence.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide attacker detonated a car filled with explosives outside a base of NATO-led peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan on Saturday in the latest attack on foreign forces.

There was no immediate report of any casualties among troops from the NATO-led International Assistance Security Force (ISAF) in the western city of Herat near the border with Iran, a force spokesman said.

``It was a suicide car bomb in front of the ISAF compound,'' said the spokesman, Captain Livio Cavallaro. ``I saw pieces of the body of the suicide attacker on the street, but have no information about any possible ISAF casualties.''

Taliban insurgents fighting to expel foreign troops and overthrow the Western-backed government have unleashed a wave of violence in recent weeks, including attacks on military bases, ambushes and roadside and suicide bombings.

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[NVMojo]

1. Suicide attacker "succeeds" might have been a good headline ...

[seriousstan]

2. Succeeds in what? Blowing his own dumb ass up?

[theHandpuppet]

3. I think that's what the poster was saying

Suicide bombers always succeed -- at least at suicide.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Update: Two killed, seven wounded in suicide bombing

From the Cincinnati Enquirer: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_CAR_BOMB?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=AMERICAS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Suicide Car Bomb Kills 2 Outside NATO Base

By DANIEL COONEY
Associated Press Writer


KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide car bomb outside a NATO military base in a western Afghan city Saturday killed two Afghans and wounded seven others - the second such attack on a foreign military base in as many days.

The explosions highlighted the increasing risk to foreign forces as they expand into new areas across Afghanistan. A suicide attack outside a U.S.-led coalition base Friday wounded two U.S. military service members and one U.S. civilian contractor in southern Helmand province.

Saturday's attack occurred near the gates of the base in Herat city, which is home to hundreds of Italian soldiers, said police chief Gen. Mohammed Ayub Salingi.

A spokesman for the NATO force, Warrant Officer Cosimo Argentieri, said no foreign troops were killed. He said one foreign civilian inside the base was slightly wounded in an arm....