Seven people killed in car bomb attack on the Southern Afghan city of Kandahar; US Admiral Bill McRaven: Special operations forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a possible expanded role as American forces begin to withdraw after a decade of war
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  • February 6-12

    According to reports, seven people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on February 5, 2012. Three policemen and four civilians died in the blast in the car park, the ministry said in a statement, while nine other people were injured.1

    In another development, according to reports, a US admiral Adm. Bill McRaven has said that special operations forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a possible expanded role as American forces begin to withdraw after a decade of war. Adm. McRaven, the special operations commander who led last year’s Navy commando raid against Osama bin Laden, confirmed special operations forces would be the last to leave under the Obama administration’s current plan, and that the Pentagon is considering handing more of the Afghan war responsibility over to a senior special operations officer as part of that evolution. He said special operations would combine targeting and training operations this summer to prepare for a smaller overall US footprint, however, he stressed that no final decisions had been made. 2

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