Suicide Bomber Strikes Near Defense Secretary Gates

sabra

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Tue Dec-04-07 10:24 AM
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Suicide Bomber Strikes Near Defense Secretary Gates

Source: ABC News Blotter

ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: A suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday struck near Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is in Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai and other officials.

The suicide bomb went off on the same airport road Gates was on, within 20 minutes of Secretary Gates' convoy, a U.S. official tells ABC News.

The Associated Press reports the bomber struck a two-vehicle convoy belonging to NATO's International Security Assistance Force near the city's airport. There were no casualties in the NATO convoy, however the blast wounding civilians passing nearby.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/suicide-bomber.html

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Newsjock

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Tue Dec-04-07 10:26 AM
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1. Bad, but ...

... "20 minutes" is hardly "near." Boo to ABC for overhyping a situation that didn't need hyping.

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Iggo

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Tue Dec-04-07 10:37 AM
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3. Yeah...

...driving like a bat-out-of-hell, running cars and carts off the road, and running over pedestrians can get you pretty far in 20 minutes. That bomb didn't go off anywhere near Gates.

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TwilightGardener

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Tue Dec-04-07 10:31 AM
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2. Well, glad he's OK.

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