A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site killed 16 people, 14 of them children, and wounded 58 in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, according to a senior police official and the U.S. military.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, said the suicide bombing was carried out by Qari Hameedullah, a Taliban fighter.
Afghan President [Karzai] called the suicide bombing an "un-Islamic act" and said those behind it [who have studied many years in Madrassas and presumably know much more about Islam than Karzai who has a secular education]] "are not aware of the Islamic teachings which outlaw the killing of innocent people. |