An explosion at a wedding party just north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed at least 40 people and injured more than 70. Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said the bombing was an attack against Islam and all of humanity. Karzai blamed the attack on the Taliban, who denied his claims. The victims, including 12 children, are the latest casualties of Afghanistan's ongoing violence. Al Jazeera's James Bays reports from Kabul.
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What Islamist threat? Just harmless, gentle souls not trying to impose anything on anybody!
ReplyDeleteThe Afghan accused of spying was a 7-year-old boy.
He was hanged from a tree in front of a crowd in Helmand's Sangin district, where more than a thousand British troops are based. He was the son and grandson of prominent tribal leaders, one of whom had recently spoken out against the Taliban, according to local journalists.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/bloody-taliban-revenge-hangs-boy-attacks-wedding/story?id=10879315
<span>Afghanistan: Child brides beaten for running away.</span>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6F56lvqu8&feature=player_embedded