Taliban kill 30 civilians with roadside bomb

Dawn:

A roadside bomb killed 30 civilians in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday including 10 children and seven women, the Interior Ministry said.

At least 39 others were wounded when the bomb hit a bus in the Maiwand district outside the southern city of Kandahar, it said in a statement.

Provincial government spokesman Zalmai Ayoubi said the bomb went off on a highway where a similar blast killed three civilians a day earlier. He blamed the Taliban for planting the devices.

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This was in a Pakistan paper. As of this posting I have not seen the story in US paper, but you know it would be a headline report if US forces had killed the civilians. It is a blatant example of the double standard of the media reporting on the war effort and it explains why the Taliban have been so successful with their media campaign. The US should be counter attacking in teh media battle space and it should be pointing out enemy atrocities like this.

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