MtnGoat
07-31-2006, 17:36
Bomb explosion at Afghan mosque kills 8
By AMIR SHAH Associated Press Writer (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4083030.html)
© 2006 The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb exploded Monday outside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan during a memorial service for a mujahedeen commander, killing at least eight people and wounding 16, officials said.
The blast went off in the yard of a mosque in the Farmay Adha area, about 12 miles south of the city of Jalalabad, as people gathered to mark the death of Younis Khalis, a former mujahedeen commander, who died July 19.
Gen. Abdul Basir Solangi, the Nangahar provincial police chief, said the bomb was planted in a car used by police to drive to the mosque to attend the service, and five policemen inside the vehicle were killed.
Ajmal Pardis, chief of the main hospital in Jalalabad, said eight bodies had been brought there, including three children and some bodyguards of the governor. It wasn't immediately clear if the bodyguards were the same as the five dead policemen.
The governor of Nangahar province was inside the mosque at the time of the blast, but was not hurt, Solangi said. Pardis said 16 people were being treated for injuries, including four children.
Khalis was a commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, leading a faction of Hezb-i-Islami, or Party of Islam, that included many Arab fighters. He was believed to have links to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Khalis, regarded as an Islamic hard-liner, lived in retirement in eastern Nangahar province during the Taliban regime. After the regime's ouster in late 2001, he became critical of the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Although reportedly in poor health, Khalis declared a jihad, or holy war, in October 2003 against the U.S. and went into hiding, said a relative of the former mujahedeen leader from the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar. He said Khalis was 87 years old when he died.
Edit to add:
Well let's Look at what is going on in country or is it just a changes in their simple ways. Man were is Paris in this video!! :lifter
Makes you wonder what is the plans of AQ are now days in A-Stan. :confused:
Car Bomb (http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-07-24-voa5.cfm) Wounds Two Coalition Soldiers in Southern Afghanistan
Lets break it down... Afghanistan: A Chronology Of Suicide Attacks Since 2001 (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/01/9ac36a59-d683-4189-a2b9-94fe5fbf32ad.html)
The estimates of Taliban fighters and suicide bombers killed in the violence ranged up to 87, with 14 Afghan police, an American civilian, an Afghan civilian and Capt. Goddard (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060503/afghanistan_carbomb_060517/20060518/) also killed in the multiple attacks.
By AMIR SHAH Associated Press Writer (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4083030.html)
© 2006 The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb exploded Monday outside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan during a memorial service for a mujahedeen commander, killing at least eight people and wounding 16, officials said.
The blast went off in the yard of a mosque in the Farmay Adha area, about 12 miles south of the city of Jalalabad, as people gathered to mark the death of Younis Khalis, a former mujahedeen commander, who died July 19.
Gen. Abdul Basir Solangi, the Nangahar provincial police chief, said the bomb was planted in a car used by police to drive to the mosque to attend the service, and five policemen inside the vehicle were killed.
Ajmal Pardis, chief of the main hospital in Jalalabad, said eight bodies had been brought there, including three children and some bodyguards of the governor. It wasn't immediately clear if the bodyguards were the same as the five dead policemen.
The governor of Nangahar province was inside the mosque at the time of the blast, but was not hurt, Solangi said. Pardis said 16 people were being treated for injuries, including four children.
Khalis was a commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, leading a faction of Hezb-i-Islami, or Party of Islam, that included many Arab fighters. He was believed to have links to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Khalis, regarded as an Islamic hard-liner, lived in retirement in eastern Nangahar province during the Taliban regime. After the regime's ouster in late 2001, he became critical of the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Although reportedly in poor health, Khalis declared a jihad, or holy war, in October 2003 against the U.S. and went into hiding, said a relative of the former mujahedeen leader from the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar. He said Khalis was 87 years old when he died.
Edit to add:
Well let's Look at what is going on in country or is it just a changes in their simple ways. Man were is Paris in this video!! :lifter
Makes you wonder what is the plans of AQ are now days in A-Stan. :confused:
Car Bomb (http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-07-24-voa5.cfm) Wounds Two Coalition Soldiers in Southern Afghanistan
Lets break it down... Afghanistan: A Chronology Of Suicide Attacks Since 2001 (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/01/9ac36a59-d683-4189-a2b9-94fe5fbf32ad.html)
The estimates of Taliban fighters and suicide bombers killed in the violence ranged up to 87, with 14 Afghan police, an American civilian, an Afghan civilian and Capt. Goddard (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060503/afghanistan_carbomb_060517/20060518/) also killed in the multiple attacks.