2 attacks near Kabul kill British soldier
Injure at least 5 people


Canadian Press


Wednesday, January 28, 2004


KABUL -- An explosion Wednesday near the British base in the Afghan capital killed a British soldier and injured several, the deputy commander of the peacekeeping force said, while police said a suicide attack near the city injured five foreigners.

The nearly simultaneous attacks came during a memorial ceremony for a Canadian soldier killed in a suicide attack in Kabul just the day before. An Afghan civilian was also killed. One British soldier was killed near their base, Camp Suitor, said Canadian Maj.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, the deputy commander of the security force, speaking at the end of the memorial service at the Canadian base.

"Initial reports indicate that one of our British comrades lost his life and there have been several injuries," he said, adding that another explosive device was detonated outside the main German base.

A spokesman for the NATO-led security force, Lt.-Col. Joerg Langer, said one British soldier died after a car bomb hit a British patrol at about 11 a.m. local time.

However, the British Defence Ministry in London said there had been no deaths in the attack, but some troops were injured.

Just east of Kabul near the German base, Camp Warehouse, a suicide bomber in a taxi detonated an explosion that injured five foreigners, said Qasim Mangal, a local police chief.

International troops and Afghan authorities closed off the scene of the attack, on the Jalalabad Road, about two kilometres from the Germans' base. From nearby, two burned-out jeeps could be seen - apparently Land Rovers that are used by British troops.

The blast blew out the windows of a bathhouse nearby, sending people scurrying from the showers, said Zulgai, 20, a worker there who like many Afghans uses only one name. He said he had seen three injured foreigners and two Afghans transported from the scene.

"It was a very strong sound," Zulgai said.

The attack Tuesday also wounded three more Canadian troops and eight civilians, including a Frenchman, when the bomber struck the convoy of three open-topped jeeps.

The Taliban had claimed responsibility for the Tuesday attack and alleged it would be the start of a campaign of suicide bombings across the country.

During Wednesday's memorial, at least one of the new blasts was heard during the ceremony that took place as a snowstorm buffeted the city.

Canadian Cpl. Jamie Brendan Murphy of Conception Harbour, Nfld., was killed Tuesday.

Murphy, 26, was on a routine patrol near Kabul just one kilometre from the Canadian base, Camp Julien, on Tuesday morning when a suicide bomber triggered an explosion near his light Iltis vehicle. Murphy expected to go home to his common-law wife in Petawawa, Ont., on Feb. 6, a couple of days earlier than scheduled.

Instead, Murphy's body will begin a long sombre journey from Kabul on Wednesday afternoon aboard a Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules transport plane. He will be accompanied by a few select army friends who will act as pallbearers and sit by his side.

Three of his comrades were injured by shrapnel in the attack but were in good condition. The army flew one soldier to a hospital in Germany Tuesday while the other two remained in Kabul.

The escalating violence comes the same week that President Hamid Karzai signed the country's post-Taliban constitution into law, with hopes that it can help bring the fractured country together after more than two decades of war.

A man identifying himself as a Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack late Tuesday in a telephone call to The Associated Press.

Mullah Hakim Latifi identified the bomber as Hafiz Abdullah, 22, from Khost province.

Latifi said the attack was the start of a campaign of suicide bombings that "will be continued until the coalition forces leave our country."

Man, that fucking makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah I kinda wonder if this is ever gonna end. annoy:

yay for bush rock:

[quote="Old Reliable":9506b]yay for bush rock:[/quote:9506b]

Yeah we need to get the hell out of the mideast.

[quote="General Cobra":c05c4][quote="Old Reliable":c05c4]yay for bush rock:[/quote:c05c4]

Yeah we need to get the hell out of the mideast.[/quote:c05c4]

Why would you pull out of Afgahistan?

[quote=Hogman74][quote="Bean 2":1f28c]You think that Clark is gonna pull out if he becomes president? I truely doubt it. Even on his site he says that hes gonna keep fighting. Also he wants to direct some of the resources from Iraq back into Afganhistan.[/quote:1f28c]

from the looks of things, Clark is way behind.
appears that Kerry will be the Democratic candidate[/quote:1f28c]

I dont even care about the Democratic candidates. They stand no chance and there a bunch of morons(not saying much since Bush is technically retarded). If i were to support a Democrat i guess it would have to be Clark.
But on another note about the Communism being just as bad as nazism, the basic idea of Communism is to support the working class and have them run the government instead of having people who cant relate to them run the country. IMO Communism is an excellent concept, its just that when its put into practice, it leaves alot of room for one person to control everything which is what happens in most cases when its put into practice. If the men were not so power hungry, it might actually work.

and what the fuck are you stating? it sounds like your trying to say we americans went into iraq to kill people just so they can like us? wake up bitch, we wouldnt spend BILLIONS of dollars to go over into some contry and kill innocent civilians for the hell of it. i cant believe how fucking ignorant you are...its a shame you even posted that.


all you "ANTI USA" and "USA KILLS CIVILANS" can kiss my fucking ass... you expect a war with no civilian casualities. its sad there is civilian casualitues, but you cant go through a war with no civilian casualities at all.


we need to get out of the middle east? you people make me sick

iraq has cost us 500 american lives and you simply want us to pull out on a half-finished job? that means those 500 men and women where merely an "experiment"? if we pull out now we give those idiot terrorists or whoever what they want, they WANT US to pull out, so they can RESIGN POWER. If we where to simply pull out, we had wasted 500 lives, BILLIONS or even TRILLIONS of dollars. fuck you and your liberal ways of thinking.

There is no basis for this war...the liberation or whatever Iraq should only be IRAQs problem and I don't see Iraq plotting to destroy america...it seems to be the other way around...

hey guys, bush wants to go to the moon....it's official, he's given up on earth

[quote="Old Reliable":f2997]hey guys, bush wants to go to the moon....it's official, he's given up on earth[/quote:f2997]

[/bill mahr]


america has always been a peacekeeping country...take korea or vietnam for example...weve gone to try to make peace by using force...if we hadnt gone after saddam, we would have been worse off....and i hate it how people take every mistake we make and totally turn it around and make it sound like were blood hungry, oil seeking mongrols. sure, bush was wrong about WMD's...maybe they didnt have any...maybe they were in the process of making them? with saddam being out of power, im damn sure the chances of any mass WMD creation will ever take place.

This little foray into iraq is one of the worst things this country has ever done. I don't say that because I think Sadam wasn't doing anything wrong, I say that because the american people, and the rest of the world were lied to by the american government in order to justify the war.

We didn't go there because sadam was a "bad man". We didn't go there because of WMD. We didn't go there because of terrorism.

The war in iraq took place because of a personal vendetta that bush had for Sadam. Ever since his daddy didn't get to take out sadam the first time, the son had to go back. Bush had been looking for an excuse to go into iraq before 9/11... and 9/11 was his excuse, but not his reason to go there.

In my opinion, because of this "lie" bush should not only be impeached, he should be tried as a war criminal.

yeah but you can't lie to the american people to justify your means. what kind of leader is that??? fuck, you can't trust such a man. plus he's fucking up the environment..

I really think we need a President that's not only gonna stay the fuck out of foriegn conflicts but is gonna start taking care of his own at home first.

[quote="General Cobra":6d54c]I really think we need a President that's not only gonna stay the fuck out of foriegn conflicts but is gonna start taking care of his own at home first.[/quote:6d54c]Then i Shall run for the democratics,they might as well let me its not they will win biggrin:

Democratics? Thats news to me. wink:

Cpl. Murphy's body arrives at CFB Trenton today. The Prime Minister will be in attendance.

Little comfort for the family, but it's a nice gesture by Martin.