Kabul Bombing Kills At Least 10

Juan Cole 09/30/2006

Kabul Bombing Kills at Least 10
Zawahiri Condemns Pope

At least 10 are dead and 54 wounded in a bombing at the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday in Kabul. (Update: The death toll is rising. Karzai blamed it on foreign elements.

For those who want to read more about what has gone wrong in Afghanistan, the well thought of Senlis Council report on the return of the Taliban is here.

In a separate incident a guerrilla bomb killed a Canadian soldier. This was the tenth killing of a Canadian soldier this month.

A new videotape of Ayman al-Zawahiri has surfaced on the internet. He taunts Bush and dismissed Pope Benedict as ntothing more than a crusader.

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page