Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills 80 in Southern Afghanistan

Not that another suicide bombing in either Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan would be "news" nowadays but this attack represents the most killed on one bombing since the Afghanistan War started back in 2001.
This attack, in the Kandahar area, was at a picnic area where people and police officials were gathered to watch dog fighting - actually, it appears that the police may have contributed to the death toll after the bombing as reports have it they fired into the crowd.
Anyway you look at it, it's a huge loss of life for the Afghans and just another chaos inspiring act by the Taliban and al Qaeda. And yet, the suicide bomber gravy train just keeps getting longer and longer...

Here's the full story from Reuters.

Picnic site blast kills over 80 Afghans

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed more than 80 people at a picnic spot in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Sunday in the most deadly attack since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the government said.
The attack will add urgency to a debate about how the United States and Afghanistan's other allies can help stem militant violence and promote stability.
"This event ... left behind more than 80 killed and 50 wounded," the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The death toll may rise because some of the wounded were in a critical condition.
The attack happened in a field where a crowd of people including police were watching dog fights in Arghandab, on the western outskirts of Kandahar city.
Kandahar governor Assadullah Khalid said it was the work of Afghanistan's enemies, a term used by the government to refer to Taliban insurgents and their al Qaeda militant allies.
The Taliban, behind a surge of suicide attacks against foreign forces and the Afghan government, could not immediately be contacted for comment.
The head of an auxiliary police force in Kandahar, Abdul Hakim, was among the dead, Khalid said.
After the blast, some of Hakim's guards fired at the crowd causing casualties, witnesses said.