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Cheney survives attack in Afghanistan
munaeem | 27 February, 2007 13:07
Via Times of India : Cheney survives attack in Afghanistan
A suicide attacker blew himself up on Tuesday outside a military base in Afghanistan where US Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting killing at least two people, officials said.
Cheney's spokeswoman said he was not injured in the incident, which came after bad weather forced Cheney to stay overnight at the base during a surprise visit for talks on the fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
It was a suicide bombing. It took place between the main gate and the gate guarded by American soldiers," said Bagram district governor Kabir Ahmad.
19 persons including 3 U.S. soldiers, one Afghan soldier, two Pakistani drivers and 13 local labors died in this attack.
If we look at the place of attack , we see that VP Cheney was not the target. So it is wrong to say that suicide bomber was after him.
Maj. William Mitchell said it did not appear the explosion was intended as a threat to the vice president. “He wasn’t near the site of the explosion,” Mitchell said. “He was safely within the base at the time of the explosion.”
It was unclear how an attacker could expect to penetrate the base, locate the vice president and get close to him without detection.
Although a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousif Ahmadi, said the Taliban had carried out the suicide bombing and Cheney was the target.
Ahmadi said the attack was carried out by an Afghan called Mullah Abdul Rahim from Logar province.
In my opinion this is the work of CIA and US intelligence operatives. Critics say that US wants to reinforce NATO troops in Afghanistan for possible attack on Iran.
They want to use incident like this as pretext to send more troops to Afghanistan.
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