[Tolo News] As many as six people were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound for foreigners in east Kabul Wednesday in retaliation for the visit of the US President to Afghanistan on Tuesday night.At least four Afghan civilians, including a child, died inside their burning car outside the compound and a Nepalese security guard was among the dead, while as many as ten Afghan school students were among the 17 maimed, officials said.
The incident happened around 6:15am, less than two hours after US President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
left Afghanistan after making an unannounced visit to sign a long-term agreement with Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai.
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack in a statement saying they launched the attack "as a reaction to Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan".
The attack ended after 10:15am when the fourth and final attacker went kaboom!" in an unoccupied building within the compound.
The first attacker died when he detonated the explosives carried in his car near the gate of the compound. The second bomber appears to have blown himself up inside the camp, and the third was bumped off by security guards, Kabul deputy police chief Daoud Amin told TOLOnews.
At least four kabooms were heard in the area, according to local residents.
The compound, known as the "Green Village", is used by international organizations for housing foreigners, including those working with the United Nations.
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Obama made a quick overnight visit to Afghanistan where he signed a long-term agreement with Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai on the one-year anniversary of former al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden's
... who no longer exists...
death. The agreement cements 10 years of US assistance to Afghanistan after NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
combat troops leave in 2014.