...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....
, Afghanistan, after two others that killed nearly two dozen people and injured nearly 100 on Monday.
It was unclear how many casualties the third blast caused or whether it had any connection to the earlier bombings.
The latest attack took place behind the Kabul bank in the Shar-e-Naw area of the city, according to a police officer at the scene. The police officer described one kaboom carried out by one attacker inside a car.
Taliban faceless myrmidons grabbed credit for the first two kabooms Monday near the Afghan Ministry of Defense in Kabul that killed two dozen people.
Saleem Rasooli, head of Kabul hospitals, told CNN at least 24 people had been killed in the attack, which also injured 91 others.
The afternoon attack included an initial bombing, followed by a suicide kaboom, said Sediq Sediqi, front man for the Afghan Ministry of Information.
The first blast was a magnetic bomb and the following suicide kaboomer was wearing an Afghan national army uniform, said Fraidoon Obaidi, chief of the Kabul police Criminal Investigation Department.
Among the dead, which included both security forces and civilians, were the head of Kabul's second police district and his deputy, Obaidi said.
Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahed tweeted that the Taliban had carried out the attack, the latest of several kidnappings and bombings blamed on the hardline religious terrorist group.
Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad 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. ..conveyed his condolences to the victims' families and denounced the methods of terrorist groups.
"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the security and defense forces of the country and thus attack highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people," Ghani said in a statement issued by his office.
The increased violence has heightened security fears in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city.