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Suicide bombing hits restaurant in Afghan capital Kabul
[IN.REUTERS] A suicide kaboom on a French restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... on Friday killed a 12-year-old boy and maimed more than a dozen other people, officials said. The latest in a series of suicide kabooms in Kabul targeted "Le Jardin", one of a small number of restaurants in the city still frequented by foreigners. The medical aid group Emergency said 15 people had been referred for treatment to the hospital that it runs nearby, and that a 12-year-old boy had been dead on arrival. The incident came almost two years after a suicide attack on a Lebanese restaurant in the city killed 21 people, including 13 expatriates, and prompted many foreign organizations to withdraw staff or place tight restrictions on their movements. In the hours after the kaboom, large numbers of police and security force personnel blocked off the site, parts of which were on fire. During a search of the surrounding areas, one suspect was jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , an Interior Ministry front man said. Earlier this week, one civilian was killed and 33 were maimed in an attack claimed by the Taliban in an area close to Kabul airport. Last week, six U.S soldiers were killed as they patrolled near Bagram air base outside Kabul and, last month, suicide attackers struck a Spanish embassy guesthouse in the capital. The attacks have coincided with renewed efforts to revive a grinding of the peace processor with the Taliban that broke down in July after news came out that the movement's leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had died two years earlier. Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistain, the United States and China are due to meet in Pakistain on Jan. 11 for a meeting aimed at laying the groundwork for talks with the holy warriors. However the Taliban, which is struggling to contain bloody factional fighting over the leadership succession, has so far refused to take part while foreign forces remain in Afghanistan. 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. .. , who said this week that terrorism had to end for the talks to succeed, condemned the latest attack.
Posted by: Fred 2016-01-02 |
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