Kabul Bombing Kills at Least 10
Zawahiri Condemns Pope
At least 10 are dead and 54 wounded in a bombing at the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday in Kabul. (Update: The death toll is rising. Karzai blamed it on foreign elements.
For those who want to read more about what has gone wrong in Afghanistan, the well thought of Senlis Council report on the return of the Taliban is here.
In a separate incident a guerrilla bomb killed a Canadian soldier. This was the tenth killing of a Canadian soldier this month.
A new videotape of Ayman al-Zawahiri has surfaced on the internet. He taunts Bush and dismissed Pope Benedict as ntothing more than a crusader.
posted by Juan Cole @ 9/30/2006 12:38:00 AM
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During an interview with a CBC reporter, Musharraf upbraided Canadians for "crying" every time one of our soldiers was killed. He said that Canada had only lost four or five, while Pakistan had lost five hundred. In fact, Canada has lost 37 soldiers and one diplomat in Afghanistan since April 2002. Twenty-nine of them have been killed since the beginning of this year.
Earlier that week, the Toronto Globe and Mail carried the picture of a tiny girl sitting alone on a chair with tears streaming down her face at the memorial service for her father who had been killed the week before.
Yes, General Musharraf, Canadians do cry when our soldiers are killed. The ones who cry realize that they are not just toy soldiers to be used to extend some politician's sphere of influence. Many Canadians are now wondering why there was such a rush to extend the commitment to Afghanistan for several more years when the present one still had more than six months to go. Exactly whose sphere of influence are we dying for now?
And by the way, General Musharraf, you're very welcome, I'm sure, that the death of our soldiers has helped prop up your military dictatorship.
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