Jihadists may try to disrupt vote in Afghanistan

A Stop The Presses Alert: the jihadists may try to interfere with Afghan elections! "Terrorists May Have Plot Against Afghan Vote," from AP, :

KABUL, Afghanistan — A deadly homicide bombing at a mosque and an attempt to down a U.S. military aircraft with a shoulder-launched missile may signal the start of a campaign of violence by Al Qaeda and Taliban rebels to destabilize Afghanistan's legislative elections, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said Tuesday.

Twenty people were killed in the June 1 blast in the southern city of Kandahar during the funeral of a moderate Muslim cleric who had spoken out against Taliban-led insurgents. Among the dead was the Kabul police chief and six of his bodyguards.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara confirmed that a shoulder-launched, surface-to-air missile was fired at U.S. aircraft on June 1. He said such attacks were infrequent and described it as an "isolated incident."

Let's hope so.

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Question is where are these jihadis getting arms and money from? Even the worst suicide-crazed,martyr-complexed jihadi scum would have trouble blowing him/her self up w/o explosives. Its these organized enablers of terror that need to be taken down in a hurry.

In this afghan case, I suspect its both Pak and Iran. Iran is already in the gunsights and will probably be taken down within the next 6-8 months (before their nuke theats become real and like NKorea they become immune to pre-emptive attack). Pak is probably on the watchlist anyways.

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