London Free Press:

A bomb tore through a minibus carrying female Afghani election workers in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least two of them and wounding 13 in the bloodiest attack yet on preparations for the country's first post-Taliban vote. A purported spokesperson for the Taliban, which has vowed to sabotage the September election, claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Benton Courier:

Suspected Taliban gunmen killed at least 10 men in southern Afghanistan after finding that they had registered for national elections, local officials said Sunday.

The attack, which occurred Friday on a road in southern Uruzgan province, was the deadliest yet in a wave of violence aimed at sabotaging the nation's first free vote, scheduled for September.

On Saturday, a bomb ripped through a bus carrying female election workers in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing two of them and wounding 13 others. A spokesman for the Taliban claimed responsibility.

The assaults raised doubts over whether Afghanistan is ready to hold the vote and increased pressure on NATO leaders meeting in Turkey on Monday to deploy more peacekeepers here.

Rozi Khan, the Uruzgan police chief, told The Associated Press that assailants stopped the van on a road about 20 miles from the provincial capital, Tirin Kot.

The gunmen opened fire after they searched the documents of the 12 men inside and found that they had registered to vote. Two men escaped and alerted police, who found the 10 bodies but have made no arrests.

The left repeatedly insists that extremist Muslim terrorists don't oppose US values (such as Democracy), but only (Bush-) specific polices. Really? I wish they'd spend more time telling the terrorists that.