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Chair bomb targets Afghan general

1 person injured; attack at ceremony called inside job

By Rod Nordland and Taimoor Shah
New York Times / December 9, 2011
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The bomb under the general’s chair was pretty clearly an inside job. Major General Abdul Hameed’s chair was on a dais full of military dignitaries, including US trainers, as he officiated at a graduation ceremony here for 200 Afghan national army sergeants yesterday.

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