Press Release
June 22, 2009
President Karzai Condemns Khost Terrorist Attack.

Kabul, Arg. H. E. Hamid Karzai, President of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly condemned the suicide bombing that killed five civilians in southeastern Khost Province.
A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a densely crowded traffic intersection in the city on Monday, killing 5 Afghan civilians and wounding more than twenty others.
The President termed the blind and heinous act of terror an “attempt that showed the cruelty and unawareness of enemy from the sacred Islamic values.”
“Such incidents can serve nothing, but fuels public hatred against their inhumane and anti-Islamic acts,” the President emphasized.
The President sends his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and prayed for a speedy recovery of the injured.
Released by the Office of the Spokesman to the President
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