AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 11 - Bomb Blast At UN Office.(Brief Article) From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: November 15, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Input Solutions. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A car bomb explodes outside the main UN compound in the southern city of Kandahar shattering windows and crumpling the outer wall of the compound. Gunter Pleuger, Germany's ambassador to the UN and the head of a recent Security Council mission to Afghanistan, says attacks by suspected Taliban, Al-Qaeda and supporters of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (a renegade warlord), poses a "significant threat" to stability. Lasting peace and security in Afghanistan cannot be achieved by the Afghan auth...