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Six dead in IS-claimed blast at Kabul military academy
Follow up to this report from yesterday.
[DAWN] At least six people were killed and 16 more maimed in a suicide kaboom outside a military academy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, an official said.

The attack, which was claimed by the hard boy 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, targeted students leaving the Marshal Fahim National Defence University in western Kabul.

Kabul police front man Firdaws Faramarz said the jacket wallah had been on foot. He went kaboom! when a soldier challenged him near the entrance to the war college.

"In the blast, 16 people were maimed and six were martyred," Faramarz said.

The attacker "let 'er rip before reaching his target", he added, without providing further details.

The attack happened around noon (0730 GMT), a time when students typically leave school early during the month of Ramazan.

The Afghan IS affiliate said it had carried out the attack and claimed to have killed "50 military trainees".

Opened in 2005 and named after former vice president Mohammed Fahim, the Marshal Fahim academy is modelled after US and British war colleges and trains cadets destined to become officers in Afghanistan’s army.

A large annexe to the university is home to dozens of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
troops who mentor the Afghan cadets.
Posted by: Fred 2019-06-01
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