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| Taliban attack Afghan parliament, seize second district in north |
| 2015-06-23 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A Taliban jacket wallah and several gunnies attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday, shattering windows and forcing politicians to flee, as a second district in two days fell to the Islamist group in the north. Violence has spiraled in Afghanistan since the departure of most foreign forces at the end of last year and the fall of the second district raises questions about the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -trained Afghan cops' ability to fight the Taliban. Insurgents are pushing to take territory more than 13 years after the U.S.-led military intervention that toppled the Taliban from power. "A suicide bomber went kaboom!just outside the parliament building and several fighters took positions in a building close to parliament," said Ebadullah Karimi, front man for 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.... police. Afghan security officials said all politicians were safe. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid grabbed credit. "We have launched an attack on parliament as there was an important gathering to introduce the country's defense minister," he said by phone. Lawmaker Shukria Barekzai said: "It was a huge blast that shook the building and shattered windows. We are in a safe place right now." The withdrawal of foreign forces and a reduction in U.S. air strikes have allowed Taliban fighters to launch several major attacks in important Afghan provinces. The second district to fall to the Taliban on Monday was in the northern province of Kunduz. The Taliban captured Dasht-e-Archi district a day after hundreds of Death Eaters fought their way to the center of the adjacent district of Chardara. "The Taliban managed to take it over this morning as the area has been surrounded for days," Nasruddin Saeedi, the district governor who escaped to the quiet provincial capital, Kunduz city, told Rooters by telephone. "They are many imported muscle with heavy machine guns. We have asked for reinforcements, but none arrived." The fall of the second district within a day underlines questions about Afghan forces' ability to quell the Taliban. Afghan soldiers were preparing a counterattack to retake both districts, another local official said. Monday's heavy fighting was just three km (two miles)from the governor's compound. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 IIRC Afghan was the "good" war that Champ won, no? More "Smart Diplomacy"? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-06-23 08:35 |