Senseless Killing US soldiers

On Monday, a suicide car bombing in the city of Kandahar killed five US soldiers. This was the second of such attacks in as many weeks. Although Afghanistani and US officials insisted that only five soldiers were injured in the latest in a string of assaults in the former Taliban stronghold, independent sources claimed five American soldiers were killed in the bombing of the convoy on the Kandahar – Heart Highway.

Mohammad Ayub Salangi, the chief of police for the province, said the attack, which involved a taxi driven and crashed into the coalition forces. He added it was a suicide bombing that left the attacker’s body blown to pieces. But the US-led coalition force’s spokesperson in Kabul, Cindy Moore, said only four soldiers had been wounded in the attack.

The Taliban, on the other hand, claimed that at least 10 people were killed in the blast. Their spokesman spoke to the Media News Agency and claimed responsibility for the attack. Wherever the casualty figure, the result is more killing of young soldiers by the extremists who claim to do it in the name of Islam.