Twin blasts rock southern Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

Twin blasts rock southern Afghanistan
By Drew Brown, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, March 17, 2009

DELARAM, Afghanistan — A pair of suicide attacks in southern Afghanistan on Monday killed more than a dozen people, following a bloody weekend in which at least nine foreign troops were killed, including four Americans.

The weekend attacks, plus Monday’s suicide bombings in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, and in Delaram, in neighboring Farah province, appeared to make good on Taliban threats to step up violence against foreign soldiers and Afghan security forces as a countermeasure to the 17,000 additional U.S. troops that will be arriving in Afghanistan in the coming months.

According to U.S. Marines, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Afghan police station in Delaram, killing at least one police officer.

Seconds later, another attacker tossed a grenade into the compound and opened fire, killing at least one other officer and wounding several more people, including civilians, according to Maj. Reginald McClam, operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, which is based outside the city.

The second attacker escaped on foot, and the Marines sent a number of troops into Delaram to help secure the area around the blast site and to search for the gunman, McClam said.


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[izzie]

1. I guess they saw a girl with a book

can any one believe this is going on with grown men in the 2000's. Like the dark ages or even pre-dates that age.