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IS claims Responsibility for Deadly Afghan Bombing
[AnNahar] The Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group claimed to have carried out a deadly suicide kaboom in eastern Afghanistan Saturday that killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100, Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said, in what, if verified, would be the first major attack claimed by the jihadist group in the country. "Who grabbed credit for horrific attack in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. today? The Taliban did not claim responsibility for the attack, Daesh (IS) grabbed credit for the attack," President Ghani said on a visit to northeastern Badakhshan province. A person purporting to be an IS front man said in a call to AFP that the group grabbed credit for the bombing outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. An online posting allegedly from the group made the same claim, which could not be immediately verified. "Thirty-three dead bodies and more than 100 maimed were brought to the hospital," Dr. Najeebullah Kamawal, head of the provincial hospital, told AFP. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a provincial government front man, confirmed the attack -- the deadliest since November. "The kaboom happened outside the bank when The U.N. gave a higher toll, saying 35 people had been killed. President Ghani strongly condemned the attack, which saw children among those killed, his office said in a statement. "Carrying out terrorist attacks in cities and public places are the most cowardly acts of terror by The scene of the attack showed the gruesome scale of the carnage with people lying in pools of blood and body parts scattered across the ground. The bombing comes as Afghanistan braces for what is expected to be a bloody push by the Taliban at the start of the fighting season. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid denied responsibility. The bully boyz have stepped up attacks on government and foreign targets since Washington backpedalled on plans to shrink the U.S. force in Afghanistan this year by nearly half. The Taliban have seen defections to IS in recent months, with some murderous Moslems voicing their disaffection with their one-eyed supreme leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , who has not been seen since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. The Afghan government has also raised the ominous prospect of IS making inroads into the country, though the group that has captured swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq has never formally acknowledged having a presence in Afghanistan. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-04-19 |
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