On 28 December, the Taliban conducted a suicide attack in the Afghan province of Khost. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives outside of a government center just as a group of school children was passing by. A U.S. military surveillance camera captured the bombing, and the Department of Defense released the tape to the Associated Press.
The suicide bomber weaves through the barriers designed to slow down vehicles while the school children are walking against the wall on the right and are in view of the bomber.
The Taliban took credit for the attack, claiming "at least 20 American and puppet terrorists were killed and more than 50 were wounded, and the building was destroyed."
The statement praised the attacker, Afghan Qari Hameedullah, claiming he had rammed a "explosive-laden vehicle into a puppet Afghan government building."
The school children were not puppets.
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