How many instances of pure evil do we have to endure before more and more people take up the mission for the complete elimination of the Taliban from the Earth? These are simply not humans. Today in central Afghanistan, the Taliban parked a truck loaded with timber and explosives and set it off - right next to a school and the end result was 25 people killed and of those 13 were school age children. I haven't heard yet that President Karzai has demanded that the Taliban not bomb civilian areas like of course he has demanded that U.S. military actions avoid civilian areas. Here's some of the details from the report at Breitbart:
A massive bomb blast Thursday in central Afghanistan killed 25 people including 13 primary school students, destroying shops and scattering pieces of the vehicle that carried the explosives over a huge area, police said. Another bombing in the south killed two NATO soldiers.And speaking of Karzai...considering that the U.S. forces are instilling totally new rules of engagement in the War because of the constant complaints from Karzai about civilian casualties, I'd like to know, over the past year, just how many civilians were killed by U.S. military errors and how many were killed, like these 25, by the Taliban. I'd wager it was something like 1 to 500. It seems that luck runs on the side of the Taliban - when Pakistan finally takes up the gauntlet and starts to really pound the shit out of the Taliban in the NW provinces of Pakistan, it is then that the Afghan government forces U.S. and NATO to take this mamby pamby approach to mowing down the Taliban.
The central Afghanistan bomb was detonated in a stationary timber truck, killing 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul, ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said. At least 13 of those killed were children from a nearby school, said Kamaluddin Zadran, a provincial official.
Another two schoolchildren were wounded and three others are still missing, Zadran said.
Massive bomb blast in central Afghanistan kills 25
KABUL (AP) - A massive bomb blast Thursday in central Afghanistan killed 25 people including 13 primary school students, destroying shops and scattering pieces of the vehicle that carried the explosives over a huge area, police said. Another bombing in the south killed two NATO soldiers.
The central Afghanistan bomb was detonated in a stationary timber truck, killing 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul, ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said. At least 13 of those killed were children from a nearby school, said Kamaluddin Zadran, a provincial official.
Another two schoolchildren were wounded and three others are still missing, Zadran said.
Provincial police chief Mustafa Khan said the truck had overturned late Wednesday as it traveled the main road from Logar to Kabul. After police arrived to clear the road on Thursday morning, militants apparently remotely detonated a bomb planted in the back of the truck among the timber, he said.
The power of the blast in Mohammad Agha district, close to shops that collect milk from farmers, sent truck pieces flying more than a mile (2 kilometers), said a second police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
AP Television News footage from the scene showed the explosion left a huge crater. People collected the remains of the dead, wrapping them in white and colored shrouds. Nearby mud houses had collapsed. Twisted and charred remains of a police vehicle caught in the blast were loaded onto a truck.
Lal Mohammad, a local police officer, was working his land about 100 meters (yards) away when the explosion happened.
"I saw a big fire and smoke from the main road," Mohammad said.
He ran toward the site of the explosion, and saw dead people and body parts strewn around.
"I collected five bodies myself and then picked up body parts," Mohammad said.
The explosion was so strong that a wall in Mohammad's house, about 200 yards (meters) away, collapsed.
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