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Attackers Storm Afghan VP Candidate’s Office, Two Killed, IED Defused Earlier
 [ToloNews] Eyewitnesses said the attack happened near Shaheed Circle and that other blasts were also heard from the area.The office of the second vice presidential candidate for President Ghani's election campaign in Kabul's police district 4 (PD4) in Shaheed Circle came under attack by at least four attackers at around 4:40 pm on Sunday evening. The attack started with a boom-mobileing followed by gunbattle by four attackers, the Ministry of Interior's front man Nusrat Rahimi confirmed. The attackers targeted the Green Trend office, a political movement run by former NDS chief and vice-presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh. Rahimi said that Mr. Saleh was "evacuated from the building and moved to a safe location." He said that while the gunbattle was still ongoing, the first and second floors of the building had been cleared by security forces. At least 40 people who were stuck inside the building were rescued during the clearance operation, Rahimi said. He said two attackers were still inside and that two button men had been killed in the shootout. Wahidullah Mayar, a front man for Ministry of Public Health, said that at least two people were killed and 25 others were maimed in the attack on Green Trend office in Kabul. 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...also tweeted that Saleh was unharmed in the "complex attack" targeting the Green Trend party headquarters. The blast was large enough to be heard throughout the capital. No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
Saleh is an uncompromising opponent of the Taliban and other hardline Islamist groups. Saleh, who commands strong support among Afghanistan’s minority ethnic Tajiks, was not immediately available for comment. Explosion foiled in Kabul [KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces thwarted forces of Evil bid to detonate an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Kabul. The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said the police force discovered and defused an IED in Shakar Dara district of Kabul. The statement further added that the forces of Evil had planted the remote-controlled IED in Qala-e-Dasht Village to target the innocent civilians. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Kabul Police Headquarters said the police forces managed to discover and defuse the bomb before it goes off. The anti-government armed forces of Evil including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented in this regard so far. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-29 |
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