AFP - Rioting erupted in Kabul Friday when two US embassy vehicles were set ablaze after one collided with a civilian car, killing a number of occupants, officials and witnesses said.

Television pictures showed the vehicles in flames and young Afghan men throwing stones at them and beating them with sticks and iron bars.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it had despatched a quick reaction force to the area, outside the American embassy and near US and Afghan army bases in the centre of the city.

Every day there is a new sign that it's FUBAR. But for those calling the shots, the problem is supposed to be:

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}