Breaking: Afghan presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah has escaped an assassination attempt in Kabul

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Breaking: Afghan presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah has escaped an assassination attempt in Kabul http://wsj.com

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Bombs close to presidential rally in Kabul injure bodyguards

KABUL Fri Jun 6, 2014 4:24am EDT

(Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a hotel in western Kabul where presidential frontrunner Abdullah Abdullah was holding a rally, striking his car and injuring his bodyguards, the candidate said on Friday.

"When I was leaving the rally from the People's Islamic Unity Party, my car was hit by a roadside bomb and damaged," he said at another rally shortly afterwards.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/06/us-afhganistan-blast-rallying-idUSKBN0EH0TM20140606

[olde north church]

I wonder if we got reverted back to successful war strategies such as, mmmm, target a few cities, rain down Hellfire for a week.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  This as opposed to "hearts and minds" and "targeted strikes".  Perhaps, taking one way rides up in helicopters or planes and showing them the door at several hundred feet.