Angry Afghan villagers approach a ramshackle teahouse and begin to remonstrate with a guard of German soldiers. Almost unnoticed, a lone man enters the village square and moves deftly towards the protesters, whose raised voices are suddenly drowned out by a shattering explosion.

Two bloodied bodies sink prostrate to the ground amid a collection of torn limbs and the bomber's severed head as the soldiers clamber hurriedly into their vehicles.