Taliban Suicide Bomber Targets Afghan Official, Kills 5 Children Instead

I'm going to see how long it takes for President Karzai to condemn this killing of five children in the Kandahar area of Afghanistan today since he certainly wastes no time jumping all over American troops if even ONE civilian is killed by accident in a U.S. operation.

A Taliban suicide bomber, trying to take out a police vehicle carrying an Afghan official killed five nearly children in the process. It's my guess that this won't be the lead story for Katie Couric this evening, either.

The report comes to us from Breitbart.

Suicide car bomb kills 5 kids in south Afghanistan


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police truck bringing a southern Afghan official to work early Monday, killing five children nearby, officials said.
The blast struck about 9 a.m. local time near a market area, said Ahmadullah Nazak, the chief of Kandahar province's Dand district.

"I dropped down. Then I heard a second explosion," Nazak said. "It hit our car, but it didn't injure me." Five children who were near the site of the blast were killed, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

A bodyguard who was driving with Nazak was wounded, he said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, though it fits the pattern of Taliban attacks targeting government officials in the south. As additional U.S. forces have poured into southern Taliban strongholds in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, Taliban insurgents have mounted a counter-campaign of bombings and assassinations aimed at those affiliated with the Afghan government.

In the east meanwhile, NATO forces said they captured a local insurgent commander in Paktia province and killed "several insurgents" in an air strike on a vehicle after troops saw the commander putting an anti-aircraft gun inside. A spokesman for NATO forces, Sgt. Michael Reinsch, declined to say how many insurgents were killed.