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Taliban blasts near Afghan parliament kill 30
[DAWN] Earlier in the day, twin Taliban blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in 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.... , killing at least 30 people and wounding 80 in a rush-hour attack that shattered a relative lull in violence in the capital. The bombings came just hours after a Taliban jacket wallah killed seven people in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the volatile southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , as the murderous Moslems ramp up attacks. The blasts in Kabul tore through employees exiting a parliament annexe, which houses the offices of politicians, leaving the area littered with bloodied bodies. "A suicide bomber on foot caused the first kaboom, leaving a number of innocent workers killed and maimed," Zabi, an injured parliament security guard, told AFP. "The second one was a boom-mobile. The vehicle was parked on the other side of the road and flung me back when it detonated," he said. The blasts left 30 people dead and 80 maimed, some of them at death's door, health ministry front man Waheed Majroh told AFP, warning that the toll was expected to rise. The dead included at least four coppers who were killed in the second kaboom when they rushed to help the victims of the first blast, a security official told AFP. The carnage underscores growing insecurity in Afghanistan, where around 10,000 US troops are helping struggling Afghan forces to combat a resilient Taliban insurgency as well as al-Qaeda and 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.... Death Eaters. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said they were behind the Kabul kabooms, adding the victims were mostly Afghan intelligence agents. The holy warriors are known to exaggerate battlefield claims. The parliament complex has been a prime target for Death Eaters. In June 2015 Talibs attacked the old parliament building, sending politicians running for cover in chaotic scenes relayed live on television. That incident ended two hours later when all seven attackers, including a suicide boom-mobileer, were bumped off by Afghan forces. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-11 |
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