Merkel: Afghan Bombing Aimed to Prevent Reconstruction

Source: Bundeswehr

"I heard of this underhanded attack with great shock," Merkel said in a statement released in Berlin. "This perfidious murder fills all of us with disgust."

She said the bombing was aimed at preventing the process of reconstruction in Afghanistan from becoming a success," but added that the international community was resolved to continue helping Afghans create a better future for themselves.

Voicing shock at the attack, German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung broke off a private weekend trip and flew back to Berlin to respond to the crisis.



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Guess that the "Lady" has her chance now to become the next poodle. Before France steps in.

Glad that there will be more NATO troops in the south.

that the Germans were doing peacekeeping and reconstruction in is going to pot. This is a big deal. You know Christian Democrat does not equal Republican. Not by the furthest stretch of the imagination.

She should call a spade a spade. Either put up or shut up.

The deaths are occurring in the south. They won't allow their military to take part there. So either you are in a war or you are not in a war.

At some point you have to get off the fence.

This is not America. Three soldiers getting killed is a big deal (it should be a big deal to us, yet it happens every day for us).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR2007051900247.html

3 German Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

By RAHIM FAIEZ
The Associated Press
Saturday, May 19, 2007; 2:18 PM

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a rare attack in Afghanistan's relatively calm north, a suicide bomber detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market on Saturday, killing three of them, along with seven Afghan civilians, officials said.

The attack in the city of Kunduz came after two German vehicles on a security patrol stopped in the market and soldiers got out on foot to do some shopping, said Kunduz provincial police chief Gen. Ayub Salangi.

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It the worst attack against Germans in the country since a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying German peacekeepers in June 2003, killing four soldiers.

Germany should not be allowed to resurrect as an imperialist power. Merkel should get the fourth reich fantasy out of her head.

Either Merkel jumps into bed with neo-cons and follow their neo-imperialist policiets or she gets the hell outta there.

You can't be half-pregnant Frau, no-no.