14 school children killed by taliban suicide bomber

This is what the taliban do best...kill innocent civilians. In this case they killed 14 children returning home from school.

Where's President Karzai to denounce the these deaths? Or does he only speak out when NATO accidentily kills civilians? (thanks to GM) Guardian

A suicide car bomb in Afghanistan today killed 14 primary school children in what officials said was a failed attempt to blow up a meeting of tribal elders.

The blast, in the country's eastern Khost province, also killed an Afghan army soldier and a security guard, and injured 58, including at least 40 civilians, the US army said.

Video footage of the bombing, taken from a security camera, shows a group of children, apparently returning from school, walking alongside a road that had a checkpoint guarding a district centre. A dark-coloured 4x4 vehicle is seen ­snaking through the barriers placed on the approach to the checkpoint, before detonating just as it drew level with the children.

"It's absolutely blatant. Children walking past, and then they detonate the vehicle bomb," said a spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan. "The driver was able to see the children, there's no doubt about that at all."