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Afghanistan
Blast near political gathering in Kabul leaves 14 dead
2017-11-17
[DAWN] A suicide attac­ker went kaboom! outside a political gathering in Kabul killing at least 14 people, officials said on Thursday.

The deadly attack, claimed by the Lion of Islam 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....
(IS) group in a brief message via its Amaq propaganda agency, was the latest to hit the Afghan capital, where bully boyz have been stepping up assaults in a devastating show of force.

Supporters of Atta Mohammad Noor, the powerful governor of the northern province of Balkh and vocal critic of Afghanistan's Caped 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. ..
, had been holding an event inside a wedding hall at the time of the blast.

Posted by:Fred

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