After nearly eight years of war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other Islamist extremist groups, some reporters still can’t understand that these groups commit acts of violence with the goal of driving foreigners out of Muslim countries and that they feel free to kill anyone they deem to be infidels. Take this report from the Associated Press on a bombing in Kandahar that killed 41 people yesterday.
Afghan officials said the blast appeared to target a Japanese construction company that mostly employs Pakistani engineers. The blast collapsed the company headquarters and destroyed part of a nearby wedding hall, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said. It wasn’t clear why the construction company was targeted.
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