Afghan Bomb Strikes at Foreign Agencies

[AsahinaKimi]

Source: NY TIMES


ANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A huge bomb detonated on Tuesday night in a part of Kandahar where international aid agencies and United Nations offices are clustered, in an attack assumed to be by the Taliban on foreigners in the country.

At least 31 people were killed and 56 wounded in the blast, which shook the entire city just after dusk at 7 p.m., when Afghans were gathered for the festive evening meal that breaks their daily Ramadan fast. Officials said most of the dead and wounded were civilians. The explosion flattened the headquarters of Saita, a Japanese company engaged in reconstruction efforts, destroyed at least 20 homes and set off raging fires.

A witness, Muhammad Anwer, said the devastation was immense. “I thought it was doomsday,” he said. “I saw dead men and children lying on the road.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/world/asia/26kandahar.html?_r=1&hp

[ohio2007]

1. Pakistanis among 41 killed in Kandahar blast ( targetted "construction" company )

Pak nationals wouldn't do buisness in Kandahar unless they felt confident their Afghan brothers would leave them alone for a small fee. Guess not.

KANDAHAR: Five car bombs were detonated simultaneously on Tuesday in Afghanistan’s largest southern city, flattening buildings and killing at least 41 people, officials said.

Afghan officials said the blasts appeared to target a Japanese construction company that mostly employs Pakistani engineers. The blast flattened the company headquarters and destroyed part of a nearby wedding hall, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
It wasn’t clear why the construction company was targeted. The reporter described the blasts as the largest he has heard in nearly eight years of living in Kandahar, the site of several large Taliban attacks in recent years.This blasts destroyed about 40 shops, the reporter estimated.
‘Once again they’ve killed children, women, innocent Afghans. They are not human. They are animals. You can see for yourself the destruction of this enemy,’ said deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Sher Shah.


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Kandahar is the spiritual home of the Taliban. A large Nato base sits on the city’s outskirts, but militants control districts immediately to the city’s west.

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http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-four-us-soldiers-killed-by-bomb-in-afghanistan-rs-01

But why would the Taliban attack the soft target that was in the buisness of rebuilding what they destroy? They can always shake down the foreign employees for protection $ to finance their next 'spectacular show of force' on the weak and helpless.The Japanese NGO's pay the lion share of the local foreign buisness tax as many family members of Taliban chieftains took some hits in this strike against the occupation.

Blood money will be demanded but thats going to be dealt with on a cultural time table
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-pakistan-must-exploit-taliban-leadership-rifts-analysts-ss-07

[PeaceDreamer]

2. Get the US out of Afghanistan Now!

We should not be fighting this senseless war. Millions of Afghans use our troops for target practice.

[ohio2007]

3. Shortage Of Civilian Experts Slows Afghan Rebuilding

Thousands of American troops are setting up combat outposts throughout Afghanistan. But in order to rebuild the country, U.S. civilian experts in fields such as farming, irrigation and the rule of law are needed.

And those experts aren't arriving in Afghanistan quickly enough, analysts say.


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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112263615

Millions of Afghans use our troops for target practice ?

Maybe you should join the peace corpse ASAP and show the animals the proper way to nation rebuild

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?_r=1