Suicide bomb attack targets CIA base in eastern Afghanistan

Source: Taipei Times (AP/AFP)

A suicide attack outside a CIA base killed one civilian and wounded two security guards yesterday in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.

The blast happened outside Camp Chapman, the same base that was hit in December in one of the worst attacks in the history of the US intelligence agency, said Mubarez Zadran, a spokesman for the provincial governor. The base is in Khost Province, a dangerous region southeast of the capital. The suicide bomber was in a car packed with explosives, the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement. The victims were all Afghans, the ministry said.

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In eastern Afghanistan, eight civilians, two of them children, were killed and 14 more wounded when a roadside bomb struck a minivan, police and a doctor said yesterday.

The victims were among a group of people traveling in Paktia Province late on Sunday when the bomb exploded, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Dastagir Rustamyar said.

Read more: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2010/05/04/2003472115

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FYI, same base where seven CIA agents and a Jordanian intelligence agent were killed by Tehreek-e-Taliban in December. Here's http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/03/c_13276742.htm">another link with more on the civilians killed in the minibus.