Afghan VP Escapes Bomb; Two GIs Killed

[DoYouEverWonder]

September 20, 2004

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A deputy to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Monday, just four days after Karzai himself was targeted as he tried to hit the campaign trail for landmark Oct. 9 elections.

Meanwhile, two U.S. soldiers and several militants were killed in firefights in the volatile southeast Monday, further underlining fragile security ahead of the vote.

Nayiamatullah Shahrani, one of four Afghan vice presidents, and Urban Development Minister Gul Agha Sherzai were on their way to inspect a road project in northern Kunduz province when the explosion rocked their convoy, police said.

The remote-controlled bomb, hidden at a roadside in Khanabad district, damaged a car in the 20-vehicle convoy that was carrying Shahrani's bodyguards, slightly hurting one of them with flying glass, Police Chief Mutaleb Beg said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-afghan-attacks,0,1714801.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


2 more lives wasted, for Bush's Blunder.

[n2mark]

1. Shrub said...

Bring them on....and they are!

[Eye and Monkey]

2. "Pleased with the progress. Elections coming soon. Puppets not blowed-up."

Woulda done things just the same."

(as if Chimpie will say anything at all about Afghanistan. not likely.)

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. You know that these attacks won't stop until

they get what they are after.