[THS] 40 killed in Afghanistan wedding attack: stories

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40 killed in Afghanistan wedding attack:

 "A suicide bomber went inside the party where hundreds of people were sitting and
blew himself up," a police official said of the blast at around 9:30 pm on Wednesday
in Arghandab district, north of Kandahr
http://tinyurl.com/2cu3fx6

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Taliban denied carrying out wedding attack:

Karzai condemns Kandahar bombing: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has called
Wednesday's attack against a wedding party in Kandahar "a crime of massive
inhuman proportions."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/201061010921894475.html

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Afghan wedding carnage 'a US strike':

The deadly attack on a group of civilians at a wedding in southern Afghanistan was a
US-led air strike, a Taliban spokesman claims.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=129805&sectionid=351020403

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Afghan president 'has lost faith in US ability to defeat Taliban':

Afghanistan's former head of intelligence says President Hamid Karzai is increasingly
looking to Pakistan to end insurgency
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/afghanistan-taliban-us-hamid-karzai

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