Afghanistan: Taliban Condemn Dog Fighting Championships by Blowing it up Killing 80 People....

Allah is pleased....

A suicide blast tore through a crowd of men watching dog fighting in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, killing 80 people and wounding dozens more, a provincial governor said.

Officials blamed Taliban insurgents for Sunday's blast, which reverberated across the city, but the extremist group did not immediately claim responsibility.

Bodies and limbs lay among bloodied boots, clothes and mobile phones -- some of them ringing -- after the explosion, an AFP reporter said.

"Lots of people have been wounded -- since they have been taken to different hospitals, we don't have a precise figure at this time," he said.

More than 500 people had gathered for the dog-fighting competition, said Abdul Karim, who had been in the crowd to take part in the popular winter pastime, which was banned from 1996 to 2001 under the Taliban government.

"Fighting had just started between two dogs. Suddenly I heard a huge explosion next to a police vehicle. Then I saw lots of people dead and wounded. I counted over 40 people on the ground dead," he told AFP.

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[BT in SA]

I am thankful for this kind of condemnation! If only it would happen more frequently. Both on this side of the world - and on the other. Yes, the dogs ultimately lose, but they lose either way as far as I'm concerned. Dog fighting should be banned and outlawed worldwide with death as a punishment and preferably a slow, very, very painful one, to ALL of those humans involved.