Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official

Deputy Governor, 5 Others Die As Bomber Blows Himself Up In Mosque

(CBS/AP)  A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing Helmand province's deputy governor and five other people, officials said.

The bomber struck in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal.

Helmand's deputy governor, Pir Mohammad, was killed in the blast, said Nisar Ahmad, a provincial health official.

The blast killed five other people and wounded 11, Ahmad said.

Earlier Thursday, a suicide bomber exploded a car next to an Afghan army bus in Kabul, killing one person and wounding four others, while authorities in the east said they found the decapitated bodies of four road construction workers.

The violence comes

The blast shattered the bus windows and badly damaged a passing taxi in Kabul's Taimani neighborhood, said police officer Jan Agha.

A civilian was killed and four other people including a soldier were wounded in the explosion, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.

Militants regularly attack Afghan and foreign troops with roadside and suicide bombs, but most of the victims are civilian.

A series of attacks last year targeted buses carrying Afghan security forces, a key element of U.S. efforts to beat back the insurgency gripping the country's south and east.

In September a suicide bomber blew himself up in an army bus in Kabul, killing 28 soldiers and two civilians. In June a bomb ripped through a bus carrying police instructors in Kabul, killing 35 people.

Thursday's violence comes two days after a new independent study was made public, warning that Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency.

The assessment, co-chaired by retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones and former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, serves as a warning to the Bush administration at a time military and congressional officials are debating how best to juggle stretched warfighting resources.

The administration wants to re-energize anti-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where al Qaeda is regenerating. But the U.S. still remains heavily invested in Iraq, and officials are sending strong signals that troop reductions there will slow or stop altogether this summer.

Last year was Afghanistan's most deadly since the ouster of the Taliban in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001. More than 6,500 people - mostly insurgents - died as a result of violence, according to an Associated Press count of figures provided by local and international officials.

Meanwhile, in eastern Nuristan province militants beheaded four road construction workers and dumped their bodies on the side of the road Wednesday, said deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Daoud Nadim.

The four were kidnapped 10 days ago while working on a road project in Kamdesh district, Nadim said.

In Kabul, hundreds of people demanded the release of an Afghan journalist who was sentenced to death last week after he was found guilty of insulting Islam.

The demonstrators from the small, secular Solidarity Party rallied in front of the United Nations office in support of 23-year old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh (at left), who was sentenced by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing to journalism students a report he had printed off the Internet.

The article asked why Islam permitted men to have four wives but women could not have multiple husbands.

Kaambakhsh has appealed his conviction.

International human rights groups have condemned the sentence but Afghanistan's upper house of parliament welcomed the ruling and criticized "international interference" in the matter.

[mikeand7]

another funny book on George Bush and his policies in middle east.

king George in his la-la land

[quetzal0666]

singinGGrick.....
Are you a prophet of old??

[terrorislam6]

are your a worshipper of retardism???

Dutch Politician: Islamic Culture Is ''Retarded''

Dutch Politician Plans to Air Film Criticizing the Koran

A Dutch politician known for his views against Islam plans to air a film he produced that is critical of the Koran, which he likens to Adolf Hitler''s hateful writings.
Parliamentarian Geert Wilders spoke to FOX News about the documentary, insisting the Muslim holy book is dangerous and should be banned.
"I believe the Koran is, indeed, ''Mein Kampf.'' They are the same package," Wilders said. "I believe that our culture is far better than the retarded Islamic culture."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325305,00.html

Dutch Braced For ''Koran Insult'' Backlash

If I insult you, am I responsible for your violence?

It''s a question being debated in the Netherlands this week as Dutch embassies around the world beef up their security ahead of the release of a film on the internet which allegedly insults the Koran. It''s reported to show the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated.
http://martinstanford.typepad.com/foreign_matters/2008/01/dutch-braced-fo.html

[singingrick]

mcv57


Stop picking on me! Stop it! You just hate me cause I''m a Christian. Why do you hate God?

[singingrick]

joyous88


Why are you picking on me? Stop it. Stop it now! It''s because I''m a true Christian isn''t it? Why don''t you just admit that you hate God?

[terrapin78]

I suppose that blowing ones self and others in a Mosque must get the Islamic bomber into Heaven.

That seems counter intuitive.

One might think killing inside a supposedly sacred place would send the bomber to the other place.

[telecom_1]

Heroin opium suicide terrorists love the devil they just call him by another name. My God is Love, there god loves death, there is no rest or peace for the wicked.

[fibonacci_]

The Bushwacker. Loooool.

[clestes-2009]

Things are going so well in Afghanistan that we are sending MORE troops!!

[mcv57]

Posted by singinrick

No, joyous88 is mocking the Bushwacker.