ANTI ISLAM MOVIE: A FEMALE BOMBER KILLED 12

A female suicide bomber killed 12 people in Kabul on Tuesday in the deadliest single attack claimed to avenge a US film that has sparked a week of deadly protests across the Muslim world.
The attack brings to more than 30 the number of people now killed in a violent backlash over a YouTube trailer for the film, “Innocence of Muslims.”
Security officials said nine foreigners, including eight South Africans, were among those killed on a major highway leading to Kabul airport and close to a wedding hall when the bomber blew her station wagon up alongside a minivan carrying foreign workers.
An Agence France Presse photographer saw at least six bodies
lying among the wreckage of a gutted minivan, and another vehicle destroyed by flames still burning in the middle of the highway, with debris flung all around.
Hezb-i-Islami, the second largest insurgent group after the Taliban who have been fighting US-led troops and the government for 10 years, claimed the attack.

“The bombing was carried out by a woman named Fatima. The bombing was in retaliation for the insult to our Prophet,” spokesman Zubair Sidiqi told AFP in a telephone from an undisclosed location.
According to the British Broadcasting Service, the victims were refuelling their van at a petrol station close to Kabul International Airport, when the suicide attacker rammed a vehicle into the van.
An eyewitness told the BBC the van refuelled at the same place every day.
Afghan intelligence services believed the attacker had information about the victims and that it was a targeted killing.

South Africa’s international relations and co-operation department said on Tuesday morning the department had received the names of the eight South Africans killed.
“We have received the names of the deceased and are working on establishing contact with families and next-of-kin,” said spokesman nelson Kgwete.
“They worked for a private aviation company operating in the country.”
The SA High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan, was informed on Tuesday morning that eight South Africans had been killed in the attack.

Kgwete said the department expressed its condolences to the friends and families of the deceased and said the families would be given assistance.
It is extremely rare for the faction to claim a suicide attack in Afghanistan. It is also rare for women to carry out suicide attacks.
Taliban fighters last week stormed a British-run airfield, killing two US Marines and destroying six US fighter jets also to avenge the film.
A week of furious protests outside US embassies and other American symbols in at least 20 countries have killed 19 other people, including the American ambassador to Libya and three other US diplomats in the North African country.