Anti Islam film revenge bomber kills "12"

Afghan police stand by
burning tyres during a
protest, in Kabul (AP) An Afghan suicide bomber
has rammed a mini-bus full
of expat Nato workers
killing 12 people in a
revenge attack over the
anti-Islam film ridiculing Mohammed. The early morning blast was
the first to target Kabul
since a video clip of the film
was posted on the internet
last week, sparking angry
protests across the Muslim world. It was also the second - and
deadliest - attack in
Afghanistan that militants
have said they carried out as
revenge strikes in response
to the film. A spokesman for the
Islamist militant group Hizb-
i-Islami claimed
responsibility for the attack
saying it was carried out by
a 22-year-old woman named Fatima. Suicide
bombings by women are
extremely rare in
Afghanistan - and few if
any women drive cars. "The anti-Islam film hurt our
religious sentiments and we
cannot tolerate it," the
spokesman said. "There had been several
young men who wanted to
take revenge but Fatima
also volunteered and we
wanted to give a chance to
a girl for the attack to tell the world we cannot ignore
any anti-Islam attack." He warned of more attacks
against foreigners working
for Nato. The bombing was an
escalation of violence in the
capital, where most attacks
are usually blamed on the
Haqqani network - a
Pakistan-based militant group affiliated with the
Taliban and al Qaida...
Eight of the dead were
South Africans believed to
be working for an aviation
company based at Rand
Airport in Johannesburg.
Four Afghans also were killed and another 11
Afghan civilians were
wounded. The blast came a day after
hundreds of Afghans
burned cars and threw
stones at a US military base
in the capital in a
demonstration against the anti-Islam film..