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Subscribe to RSSA car bomb exploded near a busy shopping area in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, on Sunday, which officials said killed at least seven people.
The blast went off at a parking lot outside the main police building, said Saisal Ahmad, a spokesman for the provincial government. Five police officers and two civilians were killed, and least 19 people were wounded, he added.
NBC reported that children were among the dead and wounded.
The blast was large enough that it shattered windows in nearby buildings. It appeared the bomb was in a parked vehicle and was remotely detonated, said Zalmai Ayubi, another government spokesman.
No one immediately claimed responsibility.
Although the international military coalition in Afghanistan has poured resources into Kandahar city and surrounding areas in recent years as part of a push to take back insurgent strongholds, the area has remained dangerous and there have been repeated attacks against government installations.
The U.N. reported on Saturday that 2011 was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs. Civilian deaths from military or other pro-government forces decreased slightly.
Afghanistan's largest insurgent movement, the Taliban, said on Sunday the report was "biased."
In an emailed statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid accused the U.N. — as a Western organization — of falsifying the figures.
The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, for his part said the report reflected the effort the international coalition has put into decreasing civilian casualties.
He added that international forces "will continue to do all we can to reduce casualties that affect the Afghan civilian population."
In the north, meanwhile, Afghan police said that an American soldier shot and killed an Afghan guard at a U.S. base, apparently because the American thought the guard was about to attack him.
There have been a growing number of attacks by Afghan soldiers against international forces in Afghanistan in recent years, some the result of arguments and others by insurgent infiltrators. Last month, an Afghan soldier shot and killed four unarmed French troops last month at a base in eastern Afghanistan.
Friday's shooting in Sari Pul province in northern Afghanistan resulted from an unfortunate misunderstanding, said Sayed Jahangir, the deputy police chief for the province.
Afghans guard the outside perimeter of the base and Americans guard inside. Jahangir said that the Afghan guard — a man named Abdul Rahim — wanted to go into the base and started arguing with the American at the door. Rahim did not raise his weapon, but the American thought he was about to do so and fired, Jahangir said.
"Our initial reports show that the American thought he was acting in self defense," Jahangir said. Rahim was a private guard, not an Afghan soldier or policeman, Jahangir said.
U.S. forces were "aware of an incident in northern Afghanistan" and were investigating, said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings. He declined to provide further details.
The Associated Press, NBC News and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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Oh the hell with Afghanistan they are bat @!$%# crazy religous wackos LEAVE! Hey are so called allies are turning their rifles on our military people{family} so who and what the hell are we fighting for? This ended in the first 3 weeks of the conflict everything after has been a complete waste.
one word: OPIUM
And the Evil One took him to the top of a mountain and said, "If you bow down and worship me, all of these nations and their splendor I will give to you".......America has one-tenth of the Earths population but uses 70% of its resources.
I really wish that you would tuck that bible under your arm. We are the only country on this Blue Earth that gives 70% of all foreign aid to other countries. That is only our government aid. That does not include private organizations! ... We are first to help when another nation suffers a natural/manmade catastrophe! Not the Chinese. Not the Russians. ..... So next time you look in the mirror, please tell me who is the 'Evil One'.
Jesusiswatching, your crap and the garbage you spew gets worse day in and day out. I'm tired of reading you moronic posts. Get a F%#@ing life you worthless piece of shiite. You have to be the king idiot on all these threads.
Funny thing is, alot of peope are blaming the U.S. for the "Arab Spring" in places such as Libya and Syria.
JOE MAST...
TELL THE MEDIA TO TELL THE TRUTH!!!!! The overwhelming majority of Syrians are behind their own government. These "death squads" are CIA and MOSSAD controlled. I know, I lived there and saw what was going on. TELL THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are fabricating stories and altering video. I was there and the truth. The next day the video was changed to tell a different story! TELL THE TRUTH!!
Source:http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/04/10317567-russia-china-veto-un-rebuke-of-syrian-president
Yet as you can see here in Afghanistan, the Mideast is clearly capable of doing such things themselves.
This headline reads; Car bomb kills at least seven in Afghanistan
Jaiden-27 said; "Funny thing is, alot of peope blah blah blah..."
I wonder when "alot" will become an actual word?
I wonder when "misquoting" and being anal-retentive will actually make you seem cool?
OCD much?
(Ain't that a gem) ^^ ;D
Where, exactly, did I "misquote"?
That'll happen about the same time being illiterate makes you seem cool.
Had to scan my post a few hundred times, but I didn't find a SINGLE instance of the word "blah", yet you quoted me as typing it not once, but three times!
They have medication for your needs. Sigmund would love you...
You must just hate the fact that there are people, like me, who are ever so much smarter than you.
Hey Jaiden. I was in Afghanistan, I was in Kandahar, I drove past the police station spoken of in the article. From what I can tell, you have no idea what you are talking about save for the thoughts given to you by biased media sources. Unless you have been there and seen for yourself, stop pointing you fingers in places they don't belong.
And Lokay, you are an idiot.
This is the type of warfare that Iran administers to other countries around it. Wouldn't it be nice to be a police man in Afghanistan? Wake up every morning, go to work, and then one day get blown to kingdom come. In America, cars have license plates. They have VIN numbers. We have DMVs that control the registration of all vehicles. Apparently not in middle eastern countries. Where did this vehicle come from? Who owned it? Who parked/drove the car? Who the hell knows?!!! Of course, these could all be mute questions if the terrorists chose a random vehicle to plant a bomb on. ..... Our soldiers concentrate on terrorists camps, or military strongholds. The terrorist cells instead bomb innocent civilians to create chaos, confusion, death, and destruction. Why? To eliminate any sense of security for the civilians going about their everyday lives. ...... What we don't get here in America is that almost all our foreign aid dollars go to fund this campaign of 'carnage'. Yes, we are paying for it. In old times it was called protection money by the gangsters. We have no accounts of where our cash goes once it gets into the hands of the Afghanistan politicians. ..... Military aid? Sure, equip, arm, feed, and train the Afghan so-called 'security forces' to kill. When they graduate they run to the closest terrorist university with USA equipment, weapons, food, and some training to kill the USA infidel dogs. .... Al Capone would be laughing right now if he were alive.
The terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan are all Wahabis with strong ties to British, Saudis and UAE. The British spy agency MI6 also provides them with intelligence leads at the cost of American loss. In return, the British forces rarely get attacked. This is a fact that American forces began to suspect. It is high time for US government to go after real culprits who are double-crossing British intelligent officers.
alex126 you really believe what you are posting,so the UK is setting up their NATO allies? What is your agenda this is pure nonsense! The USA has never had a better ally than the UK.
The proof for MI6 connection to AlQaeda and Taliban is written in black and white everywhere if you know how to look for it. The British rank-and-file is of course not aware of it. Their ultimate goal has always been to create instability and chaos in the region at any cost and fish in the muddy waters. It is a 400 year old British tradition. As for them being our ally? HaHa... we saved their rump in WW2, Falklands, etc. What have they done for us?
Animal's...they are NOT even human.
you want us to leave afganistan and then protest it or write to your leadership all of you. Dont sit here and complain do something about it.
Syria's problems will be solved by the Syrian people themselves---Assad is living on borrowed time !
Could you imagine if some where or some how a group of people band together. Out of their common desire to have the ability to partake in the choices. Choice's that effect their lives and the destiny of their childrens children for ever more. If they were to actually band together as one with an equal voice for all.
Creating a place where by equal voice the majority will of the people was a deciding factor in governing matters. With a choosen group that would then be guided and bound by the majority will as they move forward in their decisions. Decisions that would best reflect a course of action to reach the goals of the majorities will set forth by equal voice!
Ahhh, I can dream can't I?
With great power, human weakness comes into play, and corruption is the result. I dream of a society full of people who care more for others than themselves.
Violence in the middle east? I'm numb to the news. Give us another article on "dog bites man", MSNBC.
Excellent disgusted. They are all tabloid -CNN is the same : who divorced whom, a picture is worth a thousand words, Syria , Syria , Syria , Muslims kill innocent puppies, dog bit a child in Tibet, big nuts fell of a tree in Israel. Palestinians getting jobs on reservations-short of mortar.
That is all because Palestinians are all anti-semitic ! Must be , no other explaination makes sense. Oh , Palestinians are semites. Doesn't matter-they are anti-semitic. That is what the whole Middle East problem is about.
Better be careful about the Russians , Mrs, Clinton. They may just be ticked off about the $100 million that our president Wilson gave to the Bolshevics of the American taxpayers money to Lenin and the millions that Wall Street gave to Trocky and the bunch of good old boys from Lower East Side that went to St. Petersburg in 1917 to rob their aristocrats and later sell the jewels in N.Y. They may already be loosing patience with us . They may just pay back the Holy Land ( they are atheists, some say ) and payback for the millions of Russians slaughtered by our paisans , millions stolen in goods , destruction of their country . The payback maybe in pushing Holy Land back to the Stone Age . They can tell you the famous words ; '"yes, we can " . Sleep on it Mrs. Clinton because there is a lot at stake . No gas for your car , skyrocketing fuel costs which will benefit Russia and pay back for all the Russian jewels sold in N.Y. , not to mention what our friend of Lenin , Armand Hammer stole from the Russians. With the increase oil prices they will get the money back plus interest. So , to summarize -be very careful.
I just joined MSN and I am glad to see the site works.