Bombing of supermarket ends peaceful period in Kabul

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Bombing of supermarket ends peaceful period in Kabul
By Hashim Shukoor and Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011

KABUL — A bomb blast Friday at a Kabul supermarket that's popular with foreigners killed at least eight people, including three foreign nationals, police and witnesses said.

The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and said it was directed at the head of a U.S. security contractor that's operating in Afghanistan.

The target was a branch of Finest, a Western-style supermarket, in Wazir Akbar Khan, an affluent part of the city where several embassies are. The area has a security cordon around it, and the attack was sure to rattle the large contingent of diplomats, news media and aid workers based there.

"It was a suicide attack, and the legs of the attacker remained" behind, according to one of the supermarket owners, who declined to give his name because of the sensitivity of the issue.

There had been no previous threat, the owner added.



unhappycamper comment: Peace in Afghanistan is not measured by the number of drones, the number of boots occupying the country, the number of military bases throughout the region or the $$$ we continue to pour into the region.