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MSC OPAS opens 30th Anniversary Season with The Granddaddy of all TUNA Comedies!” -NBC TV The Original New York Cast Joe Sears Jaston Williams i'll * 4B Friday, September 6, 2002 Nat; the BATTAi Car bomb explodes in Afghan capital KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After the first bomb explod ed, Mohammad Halim rushed to see what was happening. Minutes later, another huge blast hurled the teenager onto a pavement suddenly slippery with blood and crunching with shattered glass. “All the people were run ning everywhere, shouting,” Halim said later Thursday from a hospital bed in Kabul. I had no idea what happened. dried fruit from a cart when h< saw the first bomb explode which he said came from th« back of a bicycle. “I went to s< pened, then we h very big blast. I my cart to look fc but there was onf Mohammad hel dozens of wounde lances. Then he went f pital to hospital lookir brother, but to no avai exploded outside Information Mir. International pc ace to stixvd atop armored carv veying the scene, nonmall of the most congested air the Afghan capital. Only a heap of tit metal was left of the cat carried the explosives. 1 he blast destroyed tut Res rep >w la 1 and shattered a dow in the nu: the neiehh All 1 could see were wounded Armed police tried to c on- Spin. Mr Restaurant, a people lying in the street. tro 1 the jo: stling crowd outs •ide other buildings ncartn screaming.” the Italian hospital, swing ing Ju st down the The car bombing in the cen- bat ons. One smasl lied Mohi immsd Sadiq. ter of the Afghan capital was Me >hamad’ s bike. walcf ted from a scccwx the bloodiest act of violence Police with automi ny w here a half since the Taliban fell last year. we apons i and white helm lets beard cd Afghans were dr Afghan state television said at we re at in itersections all o ver lea in a small restaurant least 26 people were killed and the city, i ordering drivers to Sa di M said he return 150 injured, but police put the opc :n trunk nto Afgh. mistan five daw ag; death toll at 10. bac k seats and glove compt * Iran where he lived for The blast came hours before a failed assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai in the southern city of Kandahar. ments. apf bombs. Dozen: rockets sti I ^^t may not happen vei often, but student who mo es off can pu^ md later dec des to mo batk into a dc pri om again a 1 eyes of the D< Re wit not lnul l irritating — it for a student t cat pus one \ de< le to mo\ cai i| >us the n< fot ome, wit! Hses. cla .ses and re refits, moving
