[Marxism] 3 US cop-trainers killed in Afghan bombing; another bomb kills 9 children at school

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The education of  women may have been a target in the second bombing.
Very reactionary landlord-based and privileged  strata, particularly in
the countryside, are threatened with being pushed aside by a US-NATO
occupation that seeks a "modernizing" image. The resistance in
Afghanistan is similar to Iraq in that it represents a society refusing
to be partially recolonized by an occupation imperialism, but the
society involved is much less developed socially, politically, and
economically.
Fred Feldman


Al-Jazeera

http://www.aljazeerah.info/


3 US, 2 Afghan Policemen, Killed in Taliban Suicide Attack in Kabul, 9
Afghan Children, One Adult Killed in Paktia

Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:12 PM ET

By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) -

At least 15 people have been killed in explosions in an upscale district
of
the Afghan capital Kabul and at a school in a southeastern province
where
nine children died, officials said Sunday.

The Taliban militia, vanquished by a U.S.-led uprising in late 2001,
claimed
responsibility for the Kabul blast, which killed at least three U.S.
nationals involved in the training of Afghanistan's new police force and
two
Afghan policemen.

The Taliban, which is waging a campaign of violence to disrupt
Afghanistan's
presidential elections on Oct. 9, said a suicide bomber died in the
attack.

"I contacted our colleagues and they said that it was a suicide attack
by a
Taliban fighter," Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told Reuters by
satellite phone.

An Afghan official who declined to be named confirmed the five deaths,
said
that six other local police were injured and that there were some
casualties
among civilians. He added that the blast was caused by explosives hidden
in
a car in front of the Interpol police office.

The blast in the Shar-i-Naw area of Kabul, where dozens of aid agencies
are
located, also destroyed six vehicles.

Afghan police cordoned off the site of the explosion as ambulances
rushed to
the area to transfer injured people, witnesses said.

SCHOOL BLAST KILLS NINE CHILDREN

At lease nine children and one adult were killed in a separate blast,
which
ripped through a religious school in Paktia province, a U.S. military
spokeswoman said.

"There were four children, five teenagers and one adult killed," Master
Sergeant Ann Bennett said from the U.S. military press center in Kabul.

Bennett said an 8-year-old boy injured in the school explosion was being
treated at a U.S. military base, but she was unsure how many more
wounded
there were.

"The explosion took place last night inside a private madrassah
(religious
school)," Paktia Governor Haji Assadullah Wafa told Reuters by satellite
phone. The school was in the village of Naiknaam, near the town of
Zormat,
125 km (78 miles) south of Kabul, according to the Pakistan-based Afghan
Islamic Press agency.

The premises were also used by a non-government organization for
teaching
Afghan women.

Paktia's governor said there were contradictory reports about the cause
of
the blast, with some saying it was an explosive device placed on a
motorcycle parked outside the school and others saying a device was
planted
inside the school.

Some 18,000 U.S.-led troops along with the newly formed Afghan National
Army
are hunting insurgents in the country south and southeast.

Close to a thousand people, including militants, soldiers, civilians,
aid
workers and election officials have been killed in the past year.





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