US ambassador to Afghanistan damn near got blown to smithereens

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1680422,00.html

US ambassador escapes Taliban suicide bomb

Declan Walsh in Islamabad
Friday January 6, 2006
The Guardian


The US ambassador fled a central Afghan town after a Taliban suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 50, further stoking fears of an Iraqi influence on the escalating insurgency.

Ronald E Neumann was not hurt when a man exploded a landmine strapped to his body about one mile from the governor's office in Tirin Kot, capital of Uruzgan province.

American bodyguards bundled him into a small room for 15 minutes before whisking him away, said the deputy governor, Abdul Aziz. The provincial police chief was critically wounded in the attack.

A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, named a local Talib, Abdul Rahim, as the attacker. "Our intention was to kill the US ambassador," he told Reuters by satellite phone.

[donco6]

1. So how much does Bush have to hate you . . .

. . . to appoint you ambassador to Afghanistan?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. first thing, did he call his brother Alfred

at the white house and tell him what happened?


:rofl:

geez I crack myself up! :)

[jedr]

3. fear not!

This type of violence is normal, the insurgency is in it's last throws...I have it on good word of the VP of the U.S. of A.:sarcasm:

[acmejack]

4. I imagine Ambassador Neumann is a career diplomat?

Hard to imagine this is a patronage position.

[Dunvegan]

5. Ronald E. Newman, eh?

What? Me worry? I forgot how....