{"id":3199,"date":"2013-12-12T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T07:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2013-12-12T07:26:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T07:26:33","slug":"suicide-bomb-targets-nato-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/12\/12\/3199\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomb targets Nato convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/suicide-bomb-targets-nato-convoy.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a Nato military convoy entering Kabul airport on Wednesday, killing himself but causing no other casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The blast was heard across the Afghan capital, which has seen a recent drop in insurgent attacks after several high-profile strikes earlier this year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe can confirm a suicide car bombing that targeted an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) convoy coming to Kabul International Airport,\u201d a spokeswoman with the Nato force said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe vehicle detonated too early and didn\u2019t reach the convoy. There were no ISAF casualties.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interior ministry spokesman Sidiq Sediqqi said there were no Afghan casualties in the attack on the airport, which houses a major Nato military base as well as operating civilian flights to cities including Dubai, New Delhi and Istanbul.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Flights were delayed only briefly after the bomb exploded. The Taliban, who regularly exaggerate casualty numbers, claimed responsiblity via their main Twitter account, saying ten soldiers had been killed or injured and two German vehicles destroyed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afghan and Nato troops quickly sealed off the scene around the mangled remains of the attacker\u2019s car seen outside an airport entrance used by workers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A series of suicide bomb and gun attacks earlier this year targeted foreign compounds, the Supreme Court, the airport and the presidential palace in the capital.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In October, a similar car bomb attack killed two civilians outside a compound housing foreign workers near the airport.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nato forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan after more than a decade of fighting, but negotiations have stalled on a security accord that would allow some US and Nato troops to stay after 2014.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Karzai initially endorsed the security pact, but has since refused to sign and issued fresh demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> The Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a Nato military convoy entering Kabul airport on Wednesday, killing himself but causing no other casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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