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| 15 Killed in Two Afghan Suicide Attacks |
| 2012-04-11 |
| [An Nahar] At least 15 people were killed and 33 maimed in two suicide kabooms targeting police and government offices in Afghanistan just hours apart on Tuesday, officials said. Eleven people died and 28 were maimed when two suicide attackers rammed a car boom into a government compound near the western city of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , the interior ministry said. Provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb told news hounds that the bombers were being pursued by police when they detonated the vehicle at the entrance to the Guzara district compound along the road from the airport to the city. "The car was under our surveillance. It was ordered twice to stop but they didn't stop," said the police chief. "There were two individuals in the car, one was wearing a burqa. One of the bombers is totally shattered and the other person's body is still there with his (suicide) vest still unwent kaboom!." The dead included two coppers, an intelligence officer and six civilians, the police chief said. Just hours later, four coppers died when three jacket wallahs stormed their compound in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , a local government front man said. Two of the bombers set off explosives strapped to their bodies and a third was rubbed out by police guarding the Musa Qala police offices in the troubled province, Daud Ahmedi, the front man for the provincial administration told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Three suicide attackers entered the police compound in Musa Qala district of Helmand. Two of them detonated their explosives, one was killed by police," Ahmedi told AFP. Police chief Abdul Wali and four others were maimed in the attack, he said. In the Herat bombing, most of the victims were civilians visiting the local administration offices on business, an official said. An AFP news hound, among the first to arrive at the scene, said he saw bodies strewn among rubble and pieces of metal from the bombers' car. Another witness told AFP that women and kiddies were present when the bombing happened. "Shortly before it happened, I saw some women and kiddies there. After the bombing I saw up to 10 people lying in blood," the witness told AFP. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either attack, but suicide kabooms are a hallmark of Taliban Islamic fascisti fighting to topple the Western-backed government of President Hamid karzai. Herat, a business hub on the Iranian border, is normally relatively peaceful as most Taliban attacks are concentrated in their strongholds in the south of the country, including Helmand. But the start of the new "fighting season" this spring has also seen a major attack in the northern province of Faryab last week, in which three U.S. soldiers and seven Afghans were killed. That attack was claimed by the Taliban. Also last week, a Taliban suicide kaboom killed a local councillor and key ally of Karzai's in the eastern province of Kunar. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 ..could be. On the other hand the place is far more tribal than national. Could be building a big fat vendetta deficit for when they formally proclaim themselves in charge again cause then they're the ones in the open for targeting. However, the cause->effect concept is alien to their way of thinking. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-04-11 11:03 |
| #1 Seems like the new Tali-tactic is to send unlimited waves of suicide bombers against soft, domestic targets, ignoring the stronger NATO forces, with the goal to create chaos among the population and the belief that the government forces can't protect them. "Resistance is futile, come to the shelter of the mullahs." It'll probably work. And like here, they'll get the government they deserve, at least statistically. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-04-11 07:40 |