Taliban Claim Deadly Afghan Bombings

[papau]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-afghan-suicide-attack,0,2874812.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Taliban Claim Deadly Afghan Bombings

By AMIR SHAH Associated Press Writer January 28, 2004, 5:23 AM EST
KABUL, Afghanistan --

A pair of nearly simultaneous attacks, one suicide, on British and German bases near the Afghan capital Wednesday left one British soldier dead and as many as nine other foreigners wounded, police and peacekeepers said.

A spokesman for the Taliban claimed it had carried out the bombings.

The attacks came during a memorial ceremony for a Canadian soldier killed in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul just the day before. An Afghan civilian was also killed in that attack.

The British soldier was killed near their base in Kabul, said Canadian Maj. Gen. Andrew Leslie, deputy commander of the security force, speaking at the end of the memorial service at the Canadian base. <snip>

"Initial reports indicate that one of our British comrades lost his life and there have been several injuries," he said, adding that another explosive device was detonated outside the main German base.

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[truthspeaker]

1. but we beat the Taliban and Afghanistan is free now

Nothing to see here ... move along.

[papau]

2. I do not expect to hear this on the broadcast news in the US.

:-)