Cheney says heard "loud boom" when Bagram base attacked

Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 20:40 [IST]

MUSCAT, Oman, Feb 27 (Reuters) US Vice President Dick Cheny heard the bomb attack at the gate of Bagram Airbase where he had spent the night and was briefly moved to a bomb shelter, he said today.

''They clearly try to find ways to question the authority of the central government,'' Cheney told reporters travelling with him out of Afghanistan on a military plane to Oman.

''Striking at Bagram with a suicide bomber I suppose is one way to do that.'' REUTERS MS PM1943

Topics: president, dick, cheny, heard, bomb, attack, gate, bagram, airbase, spent, ni

Other articles published on February 27, 2007

Colombia grapples with applying refugee aid: UN

Saturday, March 17, 2007,10:35 [IST]

&13; Bogota, Mar 17: Colombia struggles to properly assist thousands of people forced from their homes by conflict despite heavy government spending, strong laws and a decline in the flow of refugees, the United Nations said.Colombia's decades-long war has driven more than 3 million people from their homes and hundreds of thousands have left the country in what the UN High Commission for Refugees calls one of the worst refugee situations outside of Sudan.UN High Commissioner for.....

Limitless Updates

International News

News Archives

Nagaland: President to visit Kohima March 15

Wednesday, March 14, 2007,13:51 [IST]

Kohima, Mar 14: President A P J Abdul Kalam will arrive here tomorrow to grace the second Convocation of Nagaland University, official sources today said.The President would land at Assam Rifles helipad at around 1400 hrs and immediately drive to attend the convocation at Secretriat Plaza here.Altogether 12,981 students would be awarded degree in various discipline in the convocation.Dr Kalam would then interact with the students of the Government Higher Secondary School here at 1700.....