Deadliest blast since Taliban fall causes carnage, 2 U.S. soldiers killed

[Human Torch]

A massive suicide car bomb has killed at least 18 people, including two American soldiers, in the Afghan capital Kabul. More than 30 people were wounded in the attack, the deadliest blast in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The blast, near the US embassy in Kabul, came after Nato's senior military commander appealed for member nations to send reinforcements to combat resurgent Taliban militants

A high-ranking British general has said that the fighting in volatile southern Afghanistan is now more ferocious than in Iraq.

Today's bombing targeted an American convoy as it travelled through the streets of Kabul. The bomber detonated his explosives alongside an armoured Humvee, killing two soldiers and injuring two others. The force of the car bomb shattered windows in the surrounding area, and sent a plume of brown smoke spiralling hundreds of feet into the sky. The bombing came three days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/08/ukabul.xml



Two US soldiers were killed and two injured in the blast

[rainy]

1. Why isn't this in LBN?

[Human Torch]

3. 99% of the time I post in LBN...

...the mods combine it with another thread. So I don't post in LBN.

:patriot:

[WCGreen]

2. A war on two fronts...