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Post by Frenchie on Aug 4, 2009 15:40:22 GMT 1
A string of rockets have been fired into the Afghan capital, with one landing near the US embassy and another next to the airport. No one was killed in the Kabul attack but a man and child were injured in the dawn shelling, according to an interior ministry spokesman. Eight rockets were launched in total, with one damaging a senior official's house near the US embassy. The area also houses the British embassy and the headquarters of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). A ninth unexploded device was found five miles northeast of the city, where police said the rockets were fired from. The Taliban have claimed responsibility, saying its fighters had targeted Afghan soldiers and the Kabul international airport.
However US embassy spokeswoman Fleur Cowan said there was "no indication these rockets were targeting any particular site in Kabul".
Later in the day a suicide bomb blast killed five people and wounded 18 in the country's south. A provincial governor also escaped injury in an attack on his convoy six miles from Kabul. The unrest has raised tensions in the lead-up to presidential and provincial council elections, which the Taliban has vowed to disrupt on August 20.
This is not a good sign. This area of Afghanistan is supposed to be cleared of Taliban, or at least had them keeping their heads well under the parapet. They will be claiming a big propaganda victory with these relatively ineffective rocket attacks.
Source: Sky News
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Post by cammy on Aug 4, 2009 16:35:30 GMT 1
I seem to remember.. In Vietnam.. The TET Offencive... This is what potentially could happen.....
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