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| 4 die in Afghan guest house attack |
| 2011-08-03 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Three jacket wallahs attacked a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Tuesday, killing four Afghan security guards employed by a German company, a senior police detective said. The raid followed a string of liquidations in the once peaceful north of the country, and came one day after the beginning of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan. One attacker detonated a car boom at the gates of the guesthouse. The other two stormed the building where they fought Afghan forces for a couple of hours before detonating their explosives, said Kunduz police detective Abdul Rahman. Ten people, including civilians and a police officer, were maimed in the early morning attack, said Rahman. It was not immediately clear if any foreigners were among the maimed. Rahman said the slain Afghan security guards were employed by German development agency GTZ. The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack, said front man Zabihullah Mujahid. Violence has intensified in the north of the country in the past year as forces of Evil seek to demonstrate their reach beyond their traditional southern heartland around Kandahar city. The police chief of north Afghanistan, General Dawood Dawood, was killed in May in a massive kaboom in Takhar province, along with the Takhar police chief. In June, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a memorial service for Dawood in Kunduz, killing at least four coppers. The attack appeared to target the police chief of Kunduz province, Sameullah Qatra, whose predecessor in the post was killed by a suicide bomber in March. Qatra was unharmed. Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since US-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in late 2001, with high levels of foreign troop deaths, and record civilian casualties. A gradual transition of security control to Afghan forces began last month with when areas were handed over by the 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... -led International Security Assistance Force. Afghan forces are due to take full control across the country by the end of 2014. In the past month forces of Evil have carried out a string of destabilising liquidations of high-profile southern leaders, including 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... 's younger brother, and several large attacks killing police and civilians. |
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