Premature Detonation

10 terrorists recently suffered from premature detonation. Needless to say the 72 virgins aren't impressed. Not that there are any to begin with.

Plus an Afghani legislator was shot dead by taliban terrorists.CTV

H/T: GM

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan legislator, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban.

The gunmen killed parliament member and former military commander Habibullah Jan after he visited an Afghan army compound in the Zhari district of Kandahar late Friday, said Kandahar provincial council member Bismillih Afghanmul.

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In neighbouring Helmand province, militants planting a roadside bomb detonated the device prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, said police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal.

The fact one bomb killed so many men appears to reflect the increased size of bombs Taliban fighters have been using in recent months. The bigger bombs - long used in Iraq but a fairly new phenomenon in Afghanistan - are shredding through heavily armoured U.S. and NATO vehicles and killing multiple soldiers in one attack.

The deaths came the same day that the U.S. military said air strikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.