Hope and Change

President Disaster/Atlas Shrugs

Not in charge, not responsible: Who’s In Charge?… 53 Days Later Team Obama Still Not Sure Who’s In Charge of Worst Environmental Disaster in US History (Video) Gateway Pundit

Multiculti really worx beautifully: Moral Multiculturalism in action

President Party Boy

The wrong kind of leadership

• Obama to back anti-Israel resolution at UN next week

Last week’s jobs report tanked the stock market; the president took weeks to assert control of the oil spill that threatens doom on the Gulf Coast — but at the White House the Gatsby-like parties roll on as if happy days were here again.

Just yesterday, President Obama held another fun-filled White House event, a picnic for Congress members, complete with hot dogs, cold beverages and a fire pit.  Read more: http://www.nypost.com

Treatment of Afghan refugees in Iran:

poor Afghan refugees are asked to slap themselves on the head and then slap their compatriots in front of them and then repeat loudly ‘I will not come to Iran again!’ while those ordering the humiliation can be heard creasing up with laughter in the background.

IHH Speaking Plainly: “We only work through Hamas, although we don’t limit our aid to its followers,” he said. “We consider Israel and the United Nations to be the terrorists, not Hamas.”

“Strange demands” in Vienna:   “Wake up Hitler”

The Neo-Nazi/Islam Alliance Redux Atlas Shrugs

The left-liberal Viennese weekly Falter headlined this photo from a recent anti-Israel demonstration in the city: “Strange demand.”  “Wake up Hitler”

Jihad News:

• Mass unrest in Kyrgyzstan reaches Bishkek/Clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz…
• Kyrgyzstan asks Russia’s help as ethnic clashes worsen
• Bomb attack in Dagestan kill 2, beerhouse attacked/beer is un-Islamic/ Read more…
• Germany: Teachers to get guidelines on forced marriage, possible prison time for parent offenders
• Yemen deports Australian woman suspected of Qaeda links
• Vive la France: Should a minister who insults Arabs continue to be a member of the French Cabinet?
• In Egypt, the police are the crims: Family says Egypt police brutally killed their son (after he filmed them divvying up the loot and posting it on youtube!)
• STFU, Abdullah! Israel must act if it wants forgiveness — Turkey
• “Militants”  behead 3 people in southern Philippines

Breeding for Al Qaeda?

THIS is the British mum set to give birth to Osama Bin Laden’s grandchild.Louise Pollard, 24, is acting as a surrogate mother for the al-Qaeda warlord’s son Omar Bin Laden, The Sun can reveal.  She is undergoing fertility treatment, thought to be IVF, in an attempt to conceive using Omar’s sperm and eggs from his British wife Jane Felix Browne.  Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk

From the Religion of Peace:

Two Sikhs Beheaded by Religion of Peace

Because they didn’t pay the jiziya:

Sources said the Sikhs were kidnapped from the Bara area of Khyber Agency by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. They were kidnapped 34 days ago and the Taliban had demanded Rs 30 million as ransom. Two of the Sikhs were beheaded after the expiry of the deadline for the ransom payment, sources said.

Allowing other religions to practice their religion is  Un-Islamic.

Islamic supremacists murder another Copt in Egypt, outside building Muslims feared would be used as a church

Numerous Muslim attorneys volunteered to defend the Copt killers for free as seven attorneys representing the interests of the victims looked on.

10-Year-Old Yemeni Girl ‘Raped Daily’ by Older Husband…

Aisha & Mohammed

After a week of fighting off her husband every night, Aisha’s father was called. He had received 200,000 Yemeni Rial ($1,000) for his daughter in ‘shart’, a Yemeni dowry, which he could not pay back.

“My Dad made a cup of tea and put some pills in it, which he gave me. The pills made me feel dizzy,” said Aisha. “My Dad told me to sleep with my husband, or he would kill me, but I refused.”

A girl can be married at just nine…..

Muslims Desperate to Enter West Scuttle Boats with Children…

(Sweden) Muslim Immigrants Driving Jews Out of Malmo…

The lead paragraph in this Telegraph article says that Sweden’s reputation as a tolerant, liberal nation is suffering — as if Swedes have suddenly become anti-Semitic. But when you read down into the article a bit, you see that it is actually Muslim immigrants who are responsible for the anti-Semitic attacks. So the problem is that Swedes have been too tolerant and liberal, in tolerating the planting and proliferation of a hateful, supremacist, and anti-Semitic ideology on Swedish soil.

• Jews leaving Swedish city because of attacks by Muslims
• Pakistani Textbooks Teach Hate for Hindu Minority…
• Plans to Build Mosque Overlooking British Military Base…
• Indonesia ‘Taxes’ Marriages to Foreigners…
• Islamic Court Amputates Thieves’ Hands…
• Former 60′s ‘Swinger’ Now Calls for Sharia Rule in Britain…
• Maids Suffer Harassment, Rape in Land of Muhammad…
• Fort Jackson Five Part of ‘Fast Track’ Citizenship Program…
• Lockerbie Bomber Still Getting Last Laugh – Six Months Later…

British Hotel Owners Cleared of Insulting Muslim Guest…

Look our for the howling and whingeing from Bunglawussi and the MCB, the “injustice, humiliation” and the call for jihad because of this rejection of dhimmitude and non-subjugation:

Christian hoteliers accused of insulting a Muslim guest for wearing the hijab and berating her for her beliefs were dramatically cleared this afternoon.

Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words which were religiously aggravated against white British Muslim convert Ericka Tazi, 60.

District Judge Richard Clancy, who heard the case in the absence of a jury, told the couple that religion and politics was the ‘tinderbox which set the whole thing alight and it would appear because of strongly entrenched positions that is what has happened here’. Read more:  Daily Mail

Inner Struggle News:

• Dutch School Deemed ‘Too Diverse’ for Christmas Tree…

12 Bin Laden Kin Licensed to Fly in the U.S…/nothing to see here folks, lets go back to sleep….

• Kidnapped Italian Child Surfaces in Cairo 22 Years Later…
• (UK) Cabbie Tells Pensioner: ‘You Die Tonight’…

JW:

Pali Arab arrested at checkpoint with six pipe bombs of peace

• UK Misunderstander of Islam guilty of plotting “deadly terror attack”
• Five Washington, D.C.-area Muslims arrested in Pakistan for jihad activity

Defending Muhammad as a prophet of God is nearly impossible without throwing out the very history that Muslims have taken as fact for 1400 years.  The Impossible Task

Reform Islam? Can one of history’s greatest serial killers really be reformed?

Vlad Tepes: Everybody must get stoned:

Self appointed religious police in Spain wanted to stone Muslim women to death for adultery

Copenhuggin’ Climate Fiesta:

Bruce Bawer reports for PJTV from Commiefest

Copenhuggin’ Climate Changin’ Commie Fiesta

Warming alarmist Bob Reiss reports that NASA’s James Hansen, the Godfather of Global Warming and Al Gore’s advisor, has mades another terrifying prediction>>>

Climate Gate, Nasa Gate, youtube video

141 experts challenge the UN: prove man is warming the world

We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warmingand other changes in climate. Projections of possible future scenarios from unproven computer models of climate are not acceptable substitutes for real world data obtained through unbiased and rigorous scientific investigation. More>>

Kruddwatch:

Tim Blair:

He sounds scared:

Kevin Rudd has accused Tony Abbott of unleashing ‘’the most hardline, right-wing people in the country’’ onto the workers …

Andrew Bolt:

Labor helps itself to your millions: Kevin Rudd is stimulating votes with your cash…

KEVIN Rudd’s promise to build 35 GP super clinics across the nation appears to be in tatters, with only one completed centre in operation after two years of Labor government.

No Pensioners needed in Talibanistan: Gram-pa to the front!

Taliban secret weapon: Islamic invention, patent No *745333

• Pakistan: Mangal Bagh Calls for Suicide Attacks from the Elderly
• Pakistan kills 35 extremists in Khyber airstrikes

Ramadan = Lower Productivity, Higher Crime, Heart Attacks…(look out Solker, your next!)

• More heartbreaking pictures of starving Gazans
• Work accident!
• Zionist Attack Snakes
• Fifth Minneapolis Somali Al-Shabaab jihadist killed in ambush in Somalia on Friday

Interfaith Cooperation: Orthodox Jews Grab Muslim Who Robbed Catholic Church (that’s the spirit!)

Peanut Khadr: just call me doctor Evil!

Former US President Jimmy Carter has an op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post describing his recent visit to our region with the arrogantly-named ‘Elders’ group. The ‘Elders’ include two other vicious Jew haters who were recently awarded Medals of Freedom by Carter protege Barack Hussein Obama:Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu. The ‘Elders’ were ostensibly here to ‘support Israelis and Palestinians seeking peace.’ As you might imagine, Carter’s op-ed is completely without context.  Carl in J’lem has more>>

Muslims riot in England

Hamas “Inner Struggle” Watch: My Allah is better than yours kills good Muslims….

How to make a Muslim/get ‘em early…

The islamization of America

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Obamessiah: furious as Israel defies settlement freeze call (lets get rid of the Pali settlements!)

• Muslim sex with a child Afghan style
• The Muslim pigs called The Karzais
• Right to rape: is that what we’re fighting for?

Germany’s Muselmaniacs attack the Police

Baron Bodissey/Gates of Vienna

Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated two articles from Bild about the horrendous conditions under which German police are currently working in the cities of Hamburg and Bremen, plus an overview of the current crisis of violence against the police.

First, from Hamburg:  We stick out our necks for €1800 a month

It was an orgy of violence against the police: about a thousand totally unleashed blackhoods raged in street battles. They threw stones, bottles, heavy firecrackers — and injured fifty police officers. More>>

Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam and Radical Muslims

The usual suspects: stuck on stoopid in the sixties!

Cohn-Bendit said the maiming and killing of innocent people “has nothing to do with Islam.” And radical Muslims are fighting a justice war against their oppressors. He also argued that foreign troops must leave Afghanistan and Iraq and “leave the people of these nations in peace.”

The accusation of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

We need to stop playing defense and go on the offense. The people who use these sorts of tactics are scoundrels. Read further…

Islamic Baby Boom in Vienna

Read further…

The above quote is, you guessed it, from Muhammad, prophet of Islam

“If you look for an evil hard enough, you will find it eventually – even if it does not exist.”

Morally bankrupt morsel from our resident Moslem troll Solkhar who doesn’t want us to see evil in Iran: Top Shia Cleric and Ahmadinejad’s Spiritual Adviser Says Islam Sanctions Rape of Political Prisoners, Both Male and Female…

Misunderstander of Islam & Jihad in the US:

Islam is part of Minnesota from Counter Jihad

Islam is part of Norway (so is Rape Jihad…)

Clit-cutting is part of Islam: CNN promotes the  politically correct “cultural” BS line…

Six Christians Gunned Down after Being Told to ‘Convert or Die’…

Ever heard of ‘racist’ eggs? Britain’s PC brigades just invented them: “Racist Eggs Thrown At Mosque”

Mali Muslims Protest Rights for Women…

Lockerbie cover-up: What is the White House trying to hide?

“I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama”

Pakistan Arrests Christians for Eating During Muslim Holiday…

Taliban Chief who Threatened Prince Harry Killed…

California Politicians Break Ramadan Fast with CAIR…

(New Zealand) Immigrant Youth ‘Pack Attack’ 14-Year-Old…

CAIR Takes Aim at Talk Radio, Internet Critics of Islam…

Niqabs and Burqas: The Threat Continues

Dutch to Prosecute Arabs Over Holocaust Denial Cartoon….

Was the prophet of Islam a transvestite? Father Boutros puts Muslims in the hot seat…

Indonesian Muslim Butchers Attack Christian Village, Slaughter Children

Atlas Shrugs:

Non-believers in Obama’s childhood homeland, Indonesia — the largest Muslim country in the world — are suffering under a violent jihad. Where is Obama? What say Obama? He grew up on the streets of Jakarta. Who better to quell the unspeakable violence against Christians than an Islamo-Christian Indonesian like Obama? His father was Muslim, his step father too, his mother was ………. don’t get me started.

This is not new. This horror has been going on for year

Philippino Jihad:

‘Abu Sayyaf knew we were coming’—soldier -hmm, why would that be?

At least 23 soldiers and 20 Abu Sayyaf militants were killed when the army raided a training camp run by the Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in the southern Philippines, the military said Thursday. More>>

Jihad News links:

• Woman Murdered for Marrying Without Permission…
• Cleric: Obeying Ahmadinejad Like ‘Obeying God’…
• 400 Children (martyrs) Still Held at Taliban Camps…
• Iran Cracks Down on Christians…
• Paki Lawyers Assault Police to Spring Suspect…
• Jihad against bras: al-Shabaab Bans ‘UnIslamic’ Bras
• Islamists Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers…
• Islamists Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers…
• German School Warned Not to Teach Armenian Genocide…
• Hamas Brags about Seizing UNWRA Ambulances…
• (Bangladesh) Muslims Extorting Money from Minority Hindus…
• Muslims Urged to Wage ‘Business Jihad’…
• Tube of Hatred Pali TV indoctrinates children with hatred and violence. (Guess who’s paying).
• 500 children a year abducted from Britain: report

Counter Jihad:

Bye bye: UPDATE: French burqini-Muslim considers leaving country

Chicago Muslim charged with terrorism hoax
Another Somali-American Muslim terrorist pleads guilty
Guilty verdicts in Muslim terror trial
Saudi terror training continues in American
Muslim terror Leader Lured Recruits With War Stories
FBI agents raided Somali travel agency where young Somali terrorists tried to buy tickets
US deports Muslim cleric for Hamas fundraising
American Muslim Terrorist Sentenced to Prison for Supporting Taliban

Hamas terrorists fighting other Palestinian Muslim terrorists

Wonderful!

Gaza: Possible Showdown Between Al-Qaeda Supporters and Hamas at Friday Prayers…(Update)…As Expected, Fierce Fighting Between Hamas and Salafi Jihadist Group Breaks out, 5 Killed and 50 Wounded….ZIP

• Islamic terrorism targets Christians/The Examiner — Marianne Davis

The Examiner offers up apologies for Islamic Jihad:

To say that “all Muslims are terrorists” would be as inaccurate as saying “all Americans are members of the KKK.” (stuck on stoopid) Most of the 1.5 billion Muslims live peacefully with their neighbors. But to say that radical Islamic militants — about 15 to 20 percent of the Muslim population — are not a threat to Christians and Jews . . . is naive. Despite President Obama’s assertion that the “United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam,” radical Islamists are at war. Christians in Muslim countries today are living under violent persecution in the name of Islam.

Here are recent examples from the Voice of the Martyrs website:

Yid with Lid is baffled:

The part of the war on terror that I do not understand is “How do you make peace with people who INTENTIONALLY put their children in the line of fire?”   You don’t…

Last month the Washington Times reported that the Taliban in Pakistan are purchasing and/or kidnapping CHILDREN some as young as 7-Years-Old, then they force these kids to act as homicide bombers. Any homicide bombing is disgusting, but having little kids, elementary school kids, strap on a bomb and blow themselves up is incomprehensible.  No, its not. In Islam, anything that furthers the cause of Islam is moral. More>>

North Carolina Man Converts to Islam, Plots ‘Violent Jihad’...nothing to do with Islam, mind you..!

Nigerian Death Toll Rises to 150 as Islamic Violence Spreads…

• (UK) Taxi Driver Convicted of Raping Two 13-Year-Olds…

Sikhs, Hindus Flee Taliban Jizya in Pakistan…

• Third Hotel Bomb Malfunctioned Keeping Death Toll Much Lower…

Germany arrests Islamic cleric with bomb making plans

Dishonorable Muslim Mass Murder in Canada


Former Al-Aksa operative Terrorist Sues ‘Bruno’

“Bruno” gets a Fatwa (well, sort of) A self-proclaimed reformed Aksa Martyrs Brigades operative is claiming damages from Sacha Baron Cohen for portraying him as a terrorist in his new movie ‘Bruno.’

Britsh PC police force issues its WPCs with Muslim headscarves complete with badge for mosque visits

Dumb facial expression and cow-like cluelessness  is part of the job description:

Women police officers are being issued with headscarves to wear when they visit a mosque. They are expected to put the scarfs on shortly before they enter the mosque, in keeping with Islamic custom.

Just to make sure everyone is clear on which is the dominant culture. “Muslims welcome police scarf move,” from the BBC,

• UN bans Arab “Human Rights” group who brought in a “known terrorist” to speak on its behalf at a meeting in Geneva.

UK: Migrants in Calais to be offered £1,700 cash and a free flight home

Miliband, the Taliban Whisperer

The war in Afghanistan is not as futile as many British people today believe. But it has been conducted with a political incompetence that mocks the sacrifice of our soldiers.David Miliband is making sure that things stay the way they are…
Read more:

* 50 roasted in Paki mosque blast

2009.03.27 (Jamrud, Pakistan) – Over fifty people are slaughtered by a horrific Taliban suicide attack on a rival mosque.  Associated Press

*    ”Islamist threat to Turkey’s secular system” set to win fresh mandate

Turkish secularism on the ropes. Sharia is advancing in what is always held out to be that exemplary beacon of democracy in the Islamic world, Turkey. Bloomberg

*   Women told: ‘You have dishonoured your family, please kill yourself’

 As Turkey cracks down on ‘honour killings’, women are now told to commit suicide 

Whoops: Afghan suicide bomber accidently blows up fellow jihadists

No virgins for you, buddy. Just imagine how embarrassed he will be in front of Atta and the gang when he shows up expecting to be admitted into Paradise (Qur’an 9:111), welcomed by the virgins (Qur’an 44:54), and finds out that instead he faces an eternity of drinking molten lead in hellfire (Qur’an 18:29) because he killed fellow Muslims (Qur’an 4:92).

“Afghan bomber accidentally blows up militants,” from Reuters, via JW

Pakistan: “Schools” preparing boys for jihad, via “martial arts, archery and horse-riding skills”

Raising “questions about the Government’s pledge to crack down on terror groups accused of high-profile attacks in Pakistan and India, and ties to global terror plots.”

“The schools where pupils prepare for jihad,” by Chris Brummittin for the New Zealand Herald

UK: 200 jihadist schoolchildren identified!

Hey, kids! What time is it? It’s jihad time! “Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists,” by Mark Hughes for the Independent, via JW

Full article  below, scroll down

Speak to them in what way? In a way that challenges Al-Qaeda’s claim to Islamic authenticity and purity? Doubtful.

The Channel project was originally piloted in Lancashire and the Metropolitan Police borough of Lambeth in 2007, but in February last year it was extended to West Yorkshire, the Midlands, Bedfordshire and South Wales. Due to its success there are now plans to roll it out to the rest of London, Thames Valley, South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and West Sussex.

The scheme, funded by the Home Office, involves officers working alongside Muslim communities to identify impressionable children who are at risk of radicalisation or who have shown an interest in extremist material – on the internet or in books.

Once identified the children are subject to a “programme of intervention tailored to the needs of the individual”. Sir Norman said this could involve discussions with family, outreach workers or the local imam, but he added that “a handful have had intervention directly by the police”.

He stressed that the system was not being used to target the Muslim community. “The whole ethos is to build a relationship, on the basis of trust and confidence, with those communities,” said Sir Norman.

“With the help of these communities we can identify the kids who are vulnerable to the message and influenced by the message. The challenge is to intervene and offer guidance, not necessarily to prosecute them, but to address their grievance, their growing sense of hate and potential to do something violent in the name of some misinterpretation of a faith.

“We are targeting criminals and would-be terrorists who happen to be cloaking themselves in Islamic rhetoric. That is not the same as targeting the Muslim community.”…

Of course not! But what if the misinterpreters of the faith challenge the claim that they’re misinterpreting it? What will Sir Norman do then?

But Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said the police ran the risk of infringing on children’s privacy. He warned: “There is a difference between the police being concerned or believing a person may be at risk of recruitment and a person actually engaging in unlawful, terrorist activity.“That said, clearly in recent years some people have been lured by terrorist propaganda emanating from al-Qa’ida-inspired groups. It would seem that a number of Muslim youngsters have been seduced by that narrative and all of us, including the Government, have a role to play in making sure that narrative is seen for what it is: a nihilistic one which offers no hope, only death and destruction.”

What if that’s what they want? As Maulana Inyadullah of al-Qaeda once put it: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” How is one to respond to this kind of impulse? Not by saying, “Oh, that way offers only death and destruction!”

A Home Office spokesman said: “We are committed to stopping people becoming or supporting terrorists or violent extremists. The aim of the Channel project is to directly support vulnerable people by providing supportive interventions when families, communities and networks raise concerns about their behaviour.”

What the heck is a “supportive intervention”? Does it have anything to do with challenging the jihadist belief system? I highly doubt it.

Dynah Moe hum:

Pali Myth Machine spins like an Iranian centrifuge

Thousands welcome Erdogan on his return to Turkey from Davos. Sickening. Video here. 

Mideast: Hamas backs Erdogan over Davos walkout

Europe urged to consider Arab feelings and not help prevent smuggling weapons into Gaza.

Egypt warned European countries on Tuesday to think carefully before sending ships to patrol Gaza’s coastal waters to prevent arms smuggling, saying such a move could have significant consequences on ties with Arab states.

Morocco: Ex-Italian imam jailed for suicide attacks

Andrew Bolt: The school Israel didn’t shell

Andrew Bolt – Friday, January 30, 09

* Lying Bastards: BRITAIN’S most prominent Muslims have denounced rising anti-semitic attacks in the UK inspired by the Gaza conflict.

        Alla-bubu-snackbar!

* CIA Director Calls Search for Bin Laden ‘Hideously Complex’- “we can’t find him because he’s hiding..!”  Somehow, I think this guy is not quite up to the job. What do you think?

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati  

* Iranian cleric calls for shooting Livni

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati says during Friday prayers at Tehran’s main mosque, ‘Every time the picture of this woman is shown, I really wish that somebody would expend a bullet on her’

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Israeli Cabinet Readies Cease-Fire Vote as Battle Rages in Gaza

“For eight years, they have been shooting at us,” said Yigal Hakmon, manager of a convenience store. “We can’t stop in the middle. We have to finish. We have to kill all the Hamas people.”

Israeli forces pounded dozens of Hamas targets early Saturday as the army kept up pressure on the Islamic militant group ahead of a crucial vote on whether to end Israel’s punishing three-week-long campaign against Gaza’s rulers.

The military said it struck some 50 Hamas targets. But one shelling attack struck a U.N. school packed with refugees fleeing the fighting, killing two Palestinians and drawing a sharp condemnation from the United Nations. Israel had no comment on the incident, the latest in a string of attacks to hit a U.N. installation.

Click here for photos of the conflict.

FoxNews

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Hamas: We will continue fighting if cease-fire demands are not met

Hamas will continue fighting against Israel if none of its demands for a cease-fire are met, an official from the group said Saturday. 

Apparently reacting to reports that Israel could call off its offensive and declare a unilateral cease-fire without considering Hamas demands, Beirut-based Osama Hamdan said fighting would continue. 

“Today, the movement’s delegation arrives in Cairo. To be clear, we have nothing new to offer. We are not going to go back to the first point in the discussions and dialogue. Either we hear what we want or the result will be continuing the confrontation on the ground,” said Hamdan, who is close to movement leader Khaled Mashaal.  More from Israel News

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Suicide bomb attack on German embassy in Kabul kills four Afghans

* Mymymymymy! What happened here? And I thought the Germans were safe because they refused shooting at the Taliban!

A suicide car bomb attack outside the German embassy in Kabul has killed at least four Afghan civilians and injured five American soldiers.

    

Several passing Afghan vehicles were caught in the blast Photo: EPA

The saloon car packed with explosives rammed a jeep driven by the American soldiers who were guarding a petrol tanker making a fuel delivery close to the embassy according to witnesses.

The powerful blast sent a plume of black smoke into the air and set fire to nearby cars, buildings and trees.

Several passing Afghan vehicles were caught in the blast at around 9.45 am local time (5.15 GMT), in the heart of one of Kabul’s most secure districts.

The bomber struck on a road lined with high concrete blast barriers that runs between the German embassy and Camp Eggers, the headquarters of a US unit that trains the Afghan army and police. The presidential palace and United Nations headquarters in Afghanistan lie immediately behind Camp Eggers.

Medical officials said at least 14 civilians had been taken to hospital.

Witnesses said at least one female soldier was injured and another soldier had been blown high up onto a compound wall.

Dr Gulam Farooq Hamkar, 60, a mathematician at the nearby Academy of Science of Afghanistan, said he had helped pull the injured from burning vehicles. “We were busy working when it happened. All the windows were blown in and we were covered with glass. Many of the injured were very badly hurt and some had all their clothes burned off.”

Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said a suicide bomber named Shumse Rehman carried out the attack in a Toyota Corolla and had been targeting German soldiers. “The Germans have forces in the north of Afghanistan and they are involved in the killing of innocent Afghans,” he said. “The Taliban will target all those countries who have forces in Afghanistan.”

The German embassy said none on its personnel had been killed, but some are believed to have been wounded.

Germany has 3,200 troops in mainly in northern Afghanistan with the Nato-led coalition, but the German government has stipulated they cannot take part in combat operations.

A report released yesterday by the Afghanistan NGO Security Office, which provides security information for aid workers, said the number of gun, rocket and suicide attacks in Afghanistan rose by more than half last year.