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A community portal about Afghanistan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Afganistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East. Generally considered a part of Central Asia, it is sometimes ascribed to a regional bloc in either South Asia or the Middle East, as it has religious, ethno-linguistic, and geographic links with most of its neighbours. It is largely bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast. The name Afghanistan means the "Land of Afghans ".

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Car bomb near NATO base wounds 14 Afghans: army

From: afp.com

A suicide car bomb exploded near the main gate to a massive NATO military base in the southern city of Kandahar on Monday, wounding 14 Afghans, an army general said.

The attacker blew up a minivan filled with explosives at an Afghan security checkpoint about 50 metres (yards) from an entrance to the Kandahar Air Field, Afghan army corps commander General Shair Mohammad Zazai told AFP.

"Twelve civilians and two Afghan National Army soldiers were wounded," he said.

The attacker did not intend to enter the base but was headed to Kandahar city, about 10 kilometres (six miles) away, when he was stopped at the checkpoint -- on a main road into Afghanistan from Pakistan, the general said.

He detonated the car bomb while in a queue to be searched.

The airfield is one of the biggest bases in Afghanistan for the tens of thousands of foreign soldiers deployed to help the fragile Afghan government fight a growing insurgency led by the extremist Taliban.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed the explosion but said its troops were not directly affected by the blast.

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