After the years of bombing, the area was scarred with huge gaping holes.
This was as a result of some fighting between the Kurds and the Iraqi army and also after some fairly intense bombing in that area.
Tribal leaders in Baghran are known to be unhappy about continued American bombing in the area, which they say has led to unnecessary civilian casualties.
Born in the East End of London, the son of street traders, Herbert grew up in Whitechapel -- where Jack the Ripper once stalked his victims -- in an area badly hit by Second World War bombing raids.
Sunni militant group Laskhar-e-Jhangvi said it had carried out the bombing, which hit a largely Hazara area of Quetta.
Other patients were also in the trauma area, separated by curtains, but there were no bombing victims there, the source said.
When the Taliban identify an area to concentrate on, they start making their presence felt by bombing music shops and girls schools.
The BBC's Jon Brain in Baghdad says the ambush happened during a night of tension in the area, as US troops continued their investigation into Thursday's bombing.
Also on Monday, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying two foreign nationals arrested Saturday in the Boston area on immigration violations are from Kazakhstan and may have known the two Marathon bombing suspects.
Hundreds of thousands of Boston-area residents remained shuttered indoors after a wild overnight shootout killed one of the men suspected of bombing the Boston marathon and set off a massive manhunt for another suspect.
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In clearing the area so quickly, authorities acted on lessons learned from past terrorist attacks such as the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Atlanta Olympics bombing in 1996 and the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to security experts.
The municipalities hosting two New York City-area marathons Sunday will add police and clamp new security measures on runners and spectators following last month's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
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Once the US decided in 1999 to commit its own forces to NATO's bombing of Serbia and subsequent occupation of Kosovo, the jig was up for Serbian sovereignty over the area.
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