This, from an account from Quqnoos.com (an Afghan media outlet) of a Pakistani would-be suicide bomber who was captured and had his vest dismantled while trying to kill President Hamid Karzai’s brother in Kandahar (.pdf version here):
…. Quqnoos’ correspondent Mohammad Masumi saw the suicide attacker; described him a squint teenage, dressed in dark gray clothing. According to the suicide attacker, he was trained by Pakistani Taliban in Quetta, a north-western city of Pakistan.
“I was told by a Pakistani Talib to and kill Kandahar provincial council chief and head of the provincial reconciliation committee and their assassination is allowed, the bomber told Quqnoos’s reporter.
Canadian Special Forces – a part of around 2,200 Canadian troops stationed in Kandahar – defused the suicide vest and reportedly have taken the suicide attacker along for interrogation ….
CAVEAT: I’m going to guess that the first language of the reporter and/or the translator isn’t English, so it’s possible “Special Forces” might refer to “special troops”, like engineers.
1) If it was indeed Canadians who did this, special forces or not, well done!
2) We’ll see how long it will take mainstream media to pick this one up.
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