Thursday, January 29, 2004
A U.K. PASSPORT HOLDER?
The A.P. reports:
Peacekeepers and local authorities tightened security in the Afghan capital Thursday as they sought to determine who was behind the suicide attacks that killed two foreign soldiers in the last two days. . .
. . .At the camp of the British contingent in eastern Kabul, meanwhile, troops held a private memorial ceremony for a soldier killed Wednesday by a bomber driving a taxi. . .
. . .Four British soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously, by the blast. An Afghan translator also was slightly injured. . .
From the Press Association, AOL's online news is reporting (and this AOL link probably won't last too long, but if there's anything to this, it will be appearing elsewhere shortly) that:
REPORTS a suicide bomber said to have carried out an attack which killed a British soldier in Afghanistan was a UK passport holder were being checked today by the Foreign Office. . .
. . . According to reports, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the bomber was an Algerian-born British national in his twenties.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said it had not yet confirmed if the suspected suicide bomber was a British passport holder. "We have heard the rumour that he was an Algerian-born British passport holder, but that was from press reporting,'' she said, adding that the reports were being checked. . .
By the way: About those supposedly "unjustly held", Guantanamo-interned, British passport holders. . .
Oh, never mind. ¶ by Robert, Thursday, January 29, 2004
The A.P. reports:
Peacekeepers and local authorities tightened security in the Afghan capital Thursday as they sought to determine who was behind the suicide attacks that killed two foreign soldiers in the last two days. . .
. . .At the camp of the British contingent in eastern Kabul, meanwhile, troops held a private memorial ceremony for a soldier killed Wednesday by a bomber driving a taxi. . .
. . .Four British soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously, by the blast. An Afghan translator also was slightly injured. . .
From the Press Association, AOL's online news is reporting (and this AOL link probably won't last too long, but if there's anything to this, it will be appearing elsewhere shortly) that:
REPORTS a suicide bomber said to have carried out an attack which killed a British soldier in Afghanistan was a UK passport holder were being checked today by the Foreign Office. . .
. . . According to reports, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the bomber was an Algerian-born British national in his twenties.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said it had not yet confirmed if the suspected suicide bomber was a British passport holder. "We have heard the rumour that he was an Algerian-born British passport holder, but that was from press reporting,'' she said, adding that the reports were being checked. . .
By the way: About those supposedly "unjustly held", Guantanamo-interned, British passport holders. . .
Oh, never mind. ¶ by Robert, Thursday, January 29, 2004
