Liberty Star
12-30-2009, 08:00 PM
Deadly day in Afghanistan for American civilians and Canadian troops. Elsewhere angry Afghan villagers burnt effigy of Barack Obama:
Obama's War
Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/12/30/PH2009123000505.jpg
People chant anti-American slogans and burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama in Jalalabad, south Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009., during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by the coalition forces in Kunar province, eight of them boys aged between 12 and 14. A NATO official said initial reports from troops involved in the fighting on Sunday indicated that the victims were insurgents. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (Rahmat Gul - AP)
An Afghan demonstrator weeps, as he chants anti American slogans while the label on his headband reads " Don't kill more" during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by coalition forces in Kunar province on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths in eastern Afghanistan concluded Wednesday that civilians, including schoolchildren, were killed in the attack involving foreign troops, disputing NATO reports that the dead were insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (Musadeq Sadeq - AP)
Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 30, 2009; 6:44 PM
A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday inside an Afghan military base used by the CIA, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war, U.S. officials said.
The bomber managed to slip past security at Forward Operating Base Chapman in the eastern province of Khost before detonating an explosive belt in what one U.S. official described as a room used as a fitness center. The blast also wounded eight people, several of them seriously, U.S. government officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123000201.html
NATO: 5 Canadians killed in blast in Afghanistan
43 mins ago
KABUL – Four soldiers and one journalist from Canada were killed in an explosion Wednesday in Kandahar province, one of the most dangerous areas of southern Afghanistan, NATO said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091231/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan;_ylt=A0wNdPZTAjxLQmYBvAWs0NUE;_ylu= X3oDMTFibzE0Nm41BHBvcwM1MwRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3dvcm xkBHNsawNuYXRvNWNhbmFkaWE-
Obama's War
Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/12/30/PH2009123000505.jpg
People chant anti-American slogans and burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama in Jalalabad, south Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009., during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by the coalition forces in Kunar province, eight of them boys aged between 12 and 14. A NATO official said initial reports from troops involved in the fighting on Sunday indicated that the victims were insurgents. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (Rahmat Gul - AP)
An Afghan demonstrator weeps, as he chants anti American slogans while the label on his headband reads " Don't kill more" during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by coalition forces in Kunar province on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths in eastern Afghanistan concluded Wednesday that civilians, including schoolchildren, were killed in the attack involving foreign troops, disputing NATO reports that the dead were insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (Musadeq Sadeq - AP)
Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 30, 2009; 6:44 PM
A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday inside an Afghan military base used by the CIA, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war, U.S. officials said.
The bomber managed to slip past security at Forward Operating Base Chapman in the eastern province of Khost before detonating an explosive belt in what one U.S. official described as a room used as a fitness center. The blast also wounded eight people, several of them seriously, U.S. government officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123000201.html
NATO: 5 Canadians killed in blast in Afghanistan
43 mins ago
KABUL – Four soldiers and one journalist from Canada were killed in an explosion Wednesday in Kandahar province, one of the most dangerous areas of southern Afghanistan, NATO said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091231/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan;_ylt=A0wNdPZTAjxLQmYBvAWs0NUE;_ylu= X3oDMTFibzE0Nm41BHBvcwM1MwRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3dvcm xkBHNsawNuYXRvNWNhbmFkaWE-