Car Bomb Hits near NATO Gate at Kabul Airport
from AP 11 Dec 2013
(AP) Car bomb hits near NATO gate at Kabul airport
KABUL, Afghanistan
A car bomb went off Wednesday near
a gate used by NATO troops in the northern section of the Kabul airport, the Afghan Interior Ministry
said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility
for the pre-dawn bombing, which caused no casualties. The German military said
one of its convoys returning to the facility was targeted in the explosion,
which damaged two vehicles.
The entire convoy, including the
damaged vehicles, was able to continue to the airport, the German military
said.
The Kabul airport has both a civilian and a
military section and the explosion occurred on the military side, said Afghan
police Gen. Sayed Ghafar Sayedzada, chief of the criminal investigations
department.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah
Mujahid said in an email to media the attack was a suicide bombing against
foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Attacks on Kabul's airport are rare. The last time such
an attack happened was in June, when seven Taliban fighters, armed with
rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, assaulted NATO's operational
headquarters at the airport. All seven were killed.
NATO
Ivo
H. Daalder is the U.S.
permanent representative for NATO,
and was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Note: John R. Allen was
the supreme allied commander Europe nominee
for NATO, and is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Wesley
K. Clark is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and was the supreme allied commander in Europe
for NATO.
Robert E. Hunter
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think
tank), and was a U.S.
ambassador for NATO.
James L. Jones
Jr. is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and was the supreme allied commander in Europe
for NATO.
Norman
W. Ray was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and an assistant secretary general for NATO.
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