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2 security guards killed in Afghanistan suicide attack
[DAWN] At least two security guards have been killed after two jacket wallahs launched a coordinated attack on a politician's house in NangarharThe 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.. province, said an Afghan official. Attahullah Khogyani, front man for the provincial governor, said both suicide bombers detonated boom jackets full of explosives outside of Afghan parliamentarian Zahir Qader's house in Jalalabad, the placid provincial capital, on Wednesday morning. Another guard was maimed in the attack, said Khogyani. No one has grabbed credit for the attack so far. Nangarhar province is one of the most dangerous regions of Afghanistan where both the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the Death Eater 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 affiliates operate. It also borders neighboring Pakistain and has Quite by coincidence, of course. been the scene of heavy fighting in recent years. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-31 |
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