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demoleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-11-07 10:22 AM
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Bomber hits convoy in Afghanistan
Source: Al Jazeera

Three people have been killed after a suicide car bomb exploded near a convoy of lorries supplying Nato military bases in southern Afghanistan, police have said.

The attack in Helmand province on Tuesday came a day after a suicide blast had killed at least 27 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent months.

The two drivers killed in the blast had been pulled from the wreckage and seven civilians were wounded, Andiwal had said.

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Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher in Kabul said it was difficult to obtain accurate casualty figures due to the intense heat generated from the explosion and subsequent fires.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F386D6A1-E8C5-40FB-89DF-AA23781A012C.htm
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-11-07 10:35 AM
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1. And Afghanistan is the success the WH wants for Iraq....
well, if that is the example of success, the WH has it's 'success' times ten in Iraq.
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