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Suicide Car Bomb Targets Afghan Head of Senate

HeadlineMar 13, 2006

In Afghanistan, four people died in Kabul on Sunday in a suicide car bomb targeting the head of the country’s newly elected Senate. The official, Sighatullah Mujaddedi, escaped the blast with minor burns. After the attack, Mujaddedi blamed the Pakistani intelligence ISI of carrying out the assassination attempt. Also in Afghanistan, four U.S. soldiers died Sunday after a bomb hit their armoured vehicle.

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