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"This morning at 11:30 two insurgents were trying to get into the compound of the governor’s house. They were stopped by police at the first gate of the compound. Two police were killed and one was wounded. Two suicide attackers were also killed by them,” Perwaiz Najeeb, a Kandahar government spokesman, told NBC News.
Local officials in Kandahar earlier told NBC that several attackers were inside the governor's compound engaging in an assault.
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AFP reported the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying their main target was the provincial Gov. Tooryalai Weesa. It wasn’t known if Weesa was inside the compound at the time.
Security forces found a vehicle laden with explosives abandoned outside the compound, according to AFP.
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Afghanistan - was dubbed the 'graveyard of empires.'
I read the book.
http://www.amazon.com/In-Graveyard-Empires-Americas-Afghanistan/dp/0393338517/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335633373&sr=1-1
More so if one does not know how to fight war in the right manner!
Without eliminating Islamic militant areas in Pakistan, it is useless to fight this war.
Right, Jonathan, so totally correct. With the muslims attacking from Pakistan and being protected there, it's impossible for any kind of victory at all. Pakistan is as much a problem as Afghanistan.
Winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people... yep. <sarcasm off>
I was happy to read that it was Afghan security forces who were killed guarding their provincial governor (doubtless a crook with sticky fingers), and that they also killed the Taliban attackers. I guess that the attackers missed a 'shift change' and the expected 'waive through' didn't occur. That said, the sooner NATO get out the better. Perhaps we should confiscate all their small arms so that they can preserve their Koranic cultural heritage and go back to using knives to stab and swords to decapitate. Allah likes to see it that way.
and have Pakistan as an "trusted ally" to fight in Afghanistan and "train" the Afghan forces!
Wrong spot. Sorry.
T'hell with the Mexican fence, fence in the whole middle east.
They will eventually kill each other and the problem will be solved.
How can we permit that?
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and many Sunni nations with seventh century desert mindset have oil. You see oil is most important.
At least many feel that we have to determine the winners in the battles between Sunnis and Shiites.
Iraqi wars (1991 and 2003) were for oil and now all choking of Iranian oil supplies and making oil more expensive is to protect oil!!
Our soldiers can die for oil interests and our economies can be ruined for saving seventh century despotic, bigoted, highly corrupt Saudi & co rulers!!!!
Remember when President Bush assigned his press secretary from his days as Governor to take on the assignment of winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people? That mentality is why empires die there.
I'm waiting for the Afghan people to protest this killing. Oh wait, it's their people killing their people. I guess that's ok then. Such an enlightened country.
Scum killing scum, it isn't news! Tell me when decent people have been killed.
if Israel is really serious about fighting a country that is bigger in basically everything, from the population to the army to the airforce to the economy. maybe they really do need to be wiped off the map.
It is amazing how a once thriving civilization could be so torn sunder by Islamic fundamentalism and they don't care.
"several attackers were inside the governor's compound engaging in an assault."
After 11 years of "well planned and executed" war, if this is the result, what a way to fight war(s)!
Also look back and examine the media coverages of this war!
unless pak is isolated and fenced in...the terrorists will keep coming to afghnsiatan from the neighboring pak..