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| Afghanistan |
| Dr. Abdullah Survives Taliban Ambush |
| 2014-02-22 |
| [Tolo News] Afghan presidential candidate Dr Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... survived a Taliban attack on Wednesday on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway, his campaign said. The attack occurred on Wednesday about 4:30 pm, when a group of gunnies targeted Abdullah's convoy while he was returning to Kabul from an electoral campaign event in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province. "Yesterday after participating in a gathering...Dr Abdullah was on his way from Nangarhar province to Kabul, when he was targeted in the Tangi Abrasham area of Sorobi district," said campaign front man Fazal Rahman Oria. "Fortunately no one was hurt and then Abdullah went to Sorobi district and gave a speech." Oria condemned the attack, and accused the government of neglecting in providing security for the candidates. "Unfortunately I must say that the government should provide security and arrange forces in the area, which the government didn't," Oria added. Ministry of Interior Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told TOLOnews that the attack was on police forces and not Abdullah. Sediqqi added that candidates should cooperate with the ministry and that police forces took control of the area after the attack. Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid grabbed credit for the attack and said that three of Abdullah's personal guards were killed in the attack. Previously, unknown gunnies rubbed out two of Abdullah's in 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... , highlighting concerns about security in the run-up to the April vote. Shujahudeen and Dr Faiz Ahmad Hamdard were rubbed out just one day before the official start of the election campaign in early February. Security has been a top concern for Afghan officials leading into this year's elections, which come as 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... leaves office and the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... coalition leaves Afghanistan. A number of presidential candidates have mounted criticisms recently against what they say are insufficient security measures being taken to protect the elections. |
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