suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan -- US official: 13 Americans killed in Afghan bombing (Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011) ...img code photo (K) ... US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide car bomber ...
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The attack occurred near the entrance of the American University and the nearby landmark Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings.
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----- img code photo (A)....suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011
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US soliders, right, carry a body from the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
Photo By Ahmad Jamshid .. 4 hrs ago
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.....item 1).... Yahoo! News ... US official: 13 Americans killed in Afghan bombing
By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press | AP – 40 mins ago .........***Saturday October 29, 2011 ......
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday in Kabul, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months.
The explosion, which occurred as the convoy was passing the American University, sparked a fireball and littered the street with shrapnel. Heavy black smoke poured from burning wreckage at the site.
The armored personnel carrier, known as a Rhino was sandwiched between of a convoy of mine-resistant military vehicles traveling on a four-lane highway frequently used by NATO forces in a southwestern section of the city.
NATO said 13 service members were killed, but a U.S. official confirmed they were all Americans. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Afghan Ministry of Interior said three Afghan civilians and one policeman also died in the attack. Eight other Afghans, including two children and four other civilians, were wounded, said Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul hospitals.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack, as well as for another suicide bombing outside a government intelligence office in the northwest province of Kunar.
The attack occurred near the entrance of the American University and the nearby landmark Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings.
NATO and Afghan forces sealed off the area as fire trucks and ambulances rushed in. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw two NATO helicopters landing to airlift casualties, while coalition troops using loudspeakers ordered bystanders to evacuate the area.
It was the deadliest single attack against the U.S.-led coalition since the Taliban shot down a NATO helicopter on Aug. 6 in an eastern Afghan province, killing 30 U.S. troops, most elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans.
In other violence, a man wearing an Afghan military uniform opened fire on a joint NATO-Afghan base, killing three NATO service members in Uruzgan province, an area in the restive south that is traditionally viewed as the Taliban's stronghold.
Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi said officials were investigating whether the shooter, who was killed in the incident, was a member of the Afghan army or a militant wearing an army uniform.
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Associated Press writers Deb Riechmann and Tarek El-Tablawy in Kabul and Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed.
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----- img code photo (B)....suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011
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US soldiers gather by bodies of victims of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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----- img code photo (C)....US soldiers gather at the site, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011
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A NATO helicopter flies above the site of a suicide car bomber as Afghan security troops and US soldiers gather at the site, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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----- img code photo (D)....US soldiers check the bodies of victims
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US soldiers check the bodies of victims of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and
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----- img code photo (E)....A US soldier runs to the site of a suicide car bomber
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A US soldier runs to the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were
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----- img code photo (F)....US soldiers carry a body from the site of a suicide car bomber
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US soldiers carry a body from the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and
Photo By Ahmad Jamshid .. 4 hrs ago
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----- img code photo (G)...A NATO helicopter flies above the site of a suicide car bomber
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A NATO helicopter flies above the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and
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----- img code photo (H)...An Afghan national army soldier holds his rifle
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An Afghan national army soldier holds his rifle while seen at the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three
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----- img code photo (J).....A US soldier reacts while seen at the site of a suicide car bomber
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A US soldier reacts while seen at the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and
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----- img code photo (K)....US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide car bomber
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US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were
Photo By Muhammed Muheisen .. 3 hrs ago
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----- img code photo (L)...U.S. troops prepare to remove the wreckage of a bus hit by a suicide attack
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U.S. troops prepare to remove the wreckage of a bus hit by a suicide attack in Kabul October 29, 2011. At least four people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign soldiers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday, officials said, with an unspecified number of NATO-led troops among other casualties. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT)
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----- img code photo (M)....Foreign and Afghan forces arrive at the site of a suicide attack
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Foreign and Afghan forces arrive at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
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----- img code photo (N)....An Afghan policeman
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An Afghan policeman covers as a U.S. helicopter prepares to land at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
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----- img code photo (O)....Afghan security men stand near the site of a suicide car bomber
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Afghan security men stand near the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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----- img code photo (P)....A NATO helicopter flies above the site of a suicide car bomber
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Foreign and Afghan forces arrive at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
An Afghan policeman covers as a U.S. helicopter prepares to land at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
Afghan security men stand near the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A NATO helicopter flies above the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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----- img code photo (Q).....A foreign soldier investigates the crater
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A foreign soldier investigates the crater caused by an explosion at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul October 29, 2011. At least four people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign soldiers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday, officials said, with an unspecified number of NATO-led troops among other casualties. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Photo By MOHAMMAD ISMAIL/REUTERS .. 4 hrs ago
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.....item 2)..... PHOTO BLOG ... photoblog.msnbc.msn.com ...
Suicide car bomber strikes NATO convoy in Kabul, killing 13 Americans and four Afghans
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......item 3).... CNN ... www.cnn.com .... Official: 13 American troops killed in Kabul attack
From Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
updated 12:41 PM EST, Sat October 29, 2011
www.cnn.com/2011/10/29/world/asia/afghanistan-nato-attack/
Editor's note: Home and Away: U.S. and coalition casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- At least 13 U.S. troops were killed in central Kabul on Saturday when a suicide bomber struck a vehicle in a NATO military convoy, a U.S. military official said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force confirmed 13 deaths within its force, but did not specify their nationalities.
The U.S. official emphasized details are continuing to unfold. A heavily damaged vehicle was believed to be an armored bus that was carrying U.S. troops from one base to another. A senior NATO official identified it as a custom-built, heavily armored Rhino.
The attack caused a "number" of NATO and local Afghan casualties, ISAF said in a statement. Four Afghans, including two students, were also killed, said Hashmat Stanikzai, spokesman for Kabul's police chief.
Deadly violence across Afghanistan
A Taliban spokesman confirmed Saturday's attack in a text message, saying it killed "16 foreign soldiers, one civilian" and injured many others.
Taliban casualty counts are often inflated; there was no other reliable indication 16 foreigners were killed.
Stanikzai said the vehicle used in the attack appeared to be a red Toyota Corolla packed with a significant amount of explosives.
It was unclear how many people were wounded, said Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
The deaths were the largest single-day U.S. loss in Afghanistan since the August crash in Afghanistan's Wardak province that killed 38 people, including 17 Navy SEALS. That aircraft was brought down by an insurgent rocket-propelled grenade.
The attack was one of two targeting NATO-led forces that day.
A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on coalition forces during training, killing two, said Master Sgt. Christopher DeWitt, a spokesman for ISAF. The shooter was killed in the incident in southern Afghanistan.
The coalition did not provide any other details about the shooting, and did not disclose the nationalities of those killed.
In another suicide attack in northeastern Afghanistan, a woman in a burqa detonated herself near the nation's intelligence agency.
She tried to enter the National Directorate of Security and was shot at, but she still managed to detonate herself, said Sabour Alayar, deputy police chief of Kunar province.
Two officers and two civilians were wounded, he said, adding that the female suicide bomber was about 25 years old.
Alayar said they had intelligence of a suicide bomber looking for a target, and their security forces were on alert.
The August helicopter attack made for the the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the 10 years since allied forces began their campaign there. Seventy-one American troops died in August, six more than in July 2010, which previously had been the worst month for U.S. casualties.
Fifteen U.S. soldiers and three civilian contractors were killed in April 2005 when a coalition helicopter traveling in severe weather crashed near Ghazni. Sixteen Americans -- eight soldiers and eight sailors -- were killed when their MH-47 helicopter was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade near Kunar province in June 2005.
In May 2006, a U.S. helicopter crashed near Asadabad in Kunar province, killing all 10 U.S. soldiers aboard.
Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents and seven U.S. troops were killed in western Afghanistan in October 2009 when they returned from a raid on a compound believed to be harboring insurgents tied to drug trafficking.
The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan marked its 10th year earlier this month having passed two major milestones: The Taliban has been forced out of power and Osama bin Laden is dead.
But Afghanistan has been hit by a wave of high-profile attacks in recent months that have jeopardized the peace negotiations.
September's turban bomb assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, revered by many as a father of the Mujahedeen movement that ousted the Soviets in the 1980s, appears to have dealt the biggest blow to the peace process.
Rabbani was the chairman of President Hamid Karzai's High Council for Peace, which has been trying for a year to foster dialogue with the Taliban -- a strategy that Karzai publicly abandoned following Rabbani's killing.
Nearly 2,800 troops from the United States and its partners have died during the 10 years of war, according to a CNN count.
CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and journalist Ruhullah Khapalwak contributed to this report.
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.....item 4).... THE GLOBE AND MAIL ... www.theglobeandmail.com ...
Canadian killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing, military officer says
AMIR SHAH
KABUL, Afghanistan— The Associated Press
Published Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 3:39AM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 12:54PM EDT
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A Canadian soldier is among the dead after a Taliban suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into an armoured NATO bus that was travelling between bases in Kabul today.
A senior Canadian military officer told The Canadian Press that the Defence Department has notified the family of the soldier, but has yet to authorize the release of the name.
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.....item 5)..... Associated Press... Essential News from The Associated Press
Oct. 29, 2011 11:12 AM ET
Suicide bomber kills 13 Americans in Afghanistan
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Two police car accidents
Image by Gamma Man
No photos of the actual crash -- it was too dark to really get a crisp "action" photo, if you will.
Here is what happened, and the local newspaper interviewed me... at one end of the block, a pipe had burst, and cars were splashing water everywhere. It was 24 out, so they made a trail of ice from end of the block to the other. (On Ellwood, between Sheppard and Belmont). In all fairness, I debated calling the police, but I didn't know if I was just worrying too much - so I didn't. I tend to over-analyze things. Anyway, I stood out on the balcony half-expecting an accident, and within minutes ... a cop car was out front stopped at the light. I saw an SUV approaching, and thought "wow, he's going to hit him." He did. It was ever-so-slight, and was one of those situations like, "did someone just hit me?" Both vehicles pulled over to the left side of the street ... the cop did not turn on his lights, so it's not as if he was causing a distraction to other drivers. I stayed on the balcony ... and two light cycles later, I heard LOUD skid marks, long horn honk, and a truck smacks into the back of a car. I lean over the balcony (tree was blocking my direct view) and quickly realized it was a second police car which had been hit. So, two accidents, two light cycles apart at the same spot. (The second car was not stopped to assit first car ... I'd even call the first accident a "non-event" because it was so minor). Everyone seemed OK, no ambulances. Police blocked off the entire street with barricades and had to re-route traffic so utilities could sand the roads and fix the pipe which lasted until about midnight.
(The car in the middle was hit first, then pulled to the left, out of the flow of traffic. Car partially blocked by tree was hit second, in an entirely separate accident from first accident. Notice each lane has two lines of black ice, (reflecting the blue lights of the police cars)).
vintage car [992]
Image by brianjmatis
I've seen this awesome old car parked here many times on my neighborhood walks, and today I finally decided to feature it. I've taken shots of it before, but earlier in the day so there were all sorts of distracting shadows and bright spots on it. Today it was much later and darker out, so the light that was available was far more diffuse.
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Year 3, Day 262
[Total Consecutive Days: 992]
Opera Car
Image by eschipul
Taken at the 2009 Houston Art Car Parade sponsored by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts.
There is a full set of (almost) creative commons photos of the 2009 Art Car Parade. They are CC attribution so please do say "photo by Ed Schipul" if in use. And comments are also greatly appreciated.
Girls & Cars
Image by Miroslav Petrasko (blog.hdrshooter.net)
This photo is a part of a 14 photo series on my blog. Rest of them can be found here blog.hdrshooter.net/2012/04/21/girls-cars/
A lot of people liked my Girls & Bikes post on my blog, so here is a follow up Girls & Cars :).
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