Baghdad
(AP) — There's been a claim of responsibility for a suicide car bombing at Baghdad's main crime lab that killed at least 22 people. An al-Qaida front group, the Islamic State of Iraq, says it pulled off the Tuesday bombing. The group has already said it carried out suicide car bombings at three hotels on Monday that claimed at least 41 lives. The group's statement appeared on militant Web sites today.
KABUL (AP) — A clash between a joint NATO-Afghan force and another Afghan unit in eastern Wardak province this morning killed four Afghan soldiers when they were hit by a NATO airstrike. The Afghan Defense Ministry has condemned the killing and wants those responsible to be brought to justice after an investigation.
MIR ALI, Pakistan
(AP)— Suspected U.S. missile strikes have been raining down on alleged Pakistani militant strongholds in unprecedented numbers since the Dec. 30 bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan. Intelligence officials say nine militants are dead in the latest, which hit a North Waziristan (vah-ZEER'-ih-stahn) compound and bunker.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Up to a foot of snow is forecast today along a line that follows the borders of Arkansas and Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky and into western North Carolina and Virginia. Several interstates through mountainous parts of North Carolina are shut down. It's the same storm that walloped northern Texas and Oklahoma.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police in Utah say a 70-year-old woman who allegedly shot and killed a Head Start teacher in the Salt Lake area knew her victim and called 911 herself after the shooting. Dead is 34-year-old single mother of two Tetyana Nikitina. Police say the alleged shooter had a concealed weapons permit.
Source:kvue.com/
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Afghanistan: suicide car bomb kills eight outside Kabul hotel popular with Westerners
All of the victims are said to be civilians, but their nationalities have not been released. Around 20 other people were wounded.
The blast damaged a number of properties in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, which is home to government officials, international organisations and diplomatic residences.
Security sources believe that Ahmad Zia Massoud, the former vice president, may have been the target of the attack. His home was one of those damaged.
Mr Massoud is the brother of the anti-Taliban hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed by al-Qaeda two days before the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The wreckage of the bomber's car was left in flames outside the gate to the fortified Heetal Hotel. Windows were blown out of many houses and parts of a roof of one house had collapsed.
The blast took place as President Hamid Karzai was about to attend an anti-corruption conference elsewhere in the Afghan capital. The city has been struck by an increase in militant attacks in recent months.
Mr Karzai and many diplomats and officials were due to attend the conference at the foreign ministry in another part of town.
Ahmad Bilal, an officer of the National Directorate of Security, confirmed at the scene that the blast was caused by a suicide car bomb and said eight civilians had been killed.
Other reports indicated that security personnel were among the wounded
Source:telegraph.co.uk/
The blast damaged a number of properties in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, which is home to government officials, international organisations and diplomatic residences.
Security sources believe that Ahmad Zia Massoud, the former vice president, may have been the target of the attack. His home was one of those damaged.
Mr Massoud is the brother of the anti-Taliban hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed by al-Qaeda two days before the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The wreckage of the bomber's car was left in flames outside the gate to the fortified Heetal Hotel. Windows were blown out of many houses and parts of a roof of one house had collapsed.
The blast took place as President Hamid Karzai was about to attend an anti-corruption conference elsewhere in the Afghan capital. The city has been struck by an increase in militant attacks in recent months.
Mr Karzai and many diplomats and officials were due to attend the conference at the foreign ministry in another part of town.
Ahmad Bilal, an officer of the National Directorate of Security, confirmed at the scene that the blast was caused by a suicide car bomb and said eight civilians had been killed.
Other reports indicated that security personnel were among the wounded
Source:telegraph.co.uk/
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