Car Bomb Outside Security Contractor Dynocorp Takes Many Lives

**kellyhound** · #1 ● 11-22-2010, 09:01 AM

August 30th, 2004 KABUL : A heavy security clampdown was enforced in the Afghan capital after the bombing of a US firm left at least 9 people dead, including 3 Americans, and raised new fears about security just weeks before the country's historic elections.

The attack on security contractor DynCorp was claimed by spokesman linked to the former Taliban Islamic fundamentalist regime and Al-Qaeda, and analysts said more attacks could be expected in the run-up to October 9 polls.

A truck loaded with wood and packed with explosives was detonated outside DynCorp's office in the Shar-e-Naw district, home to many aid agencies and foreign firms.

DynCorp provides Afghan President Hamid Karzai's bodyguards and trains the fledgling police force.

Ken McKillop, spokesman for the NATO-led peacekeeping force, said that 3 US citizens and 3 Afghan nationals treated by the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) had died in the attack.

However, the spokesman said he could not comment about casualties who may have been taken to other medical facilities in the city and could not confirm the total death toll from the attack.

The Afghan government said that also three Nepalese citizens died in the attack.
A Western security source also confirmed that three Nepalese were among the dead.

At least 22 people were wounded in the blast, according to a toll compiled from hospitals around Kabul.