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| Afghanistan hints at Pakistan link to Kabul hotel attack |
| 2014-03-24 |
| [DAWN] Afghanistan on Sunday said an attack on a Kabul hotel that left nine civilians dead, including an AFP journalist, was planned "outside the country" in a veiled reference to Pakistain. The National Security Council (NSC), which is chaired by 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... , also alleged that a Pak diplomat was seen scoping out the corridors of the Serena hotel ahead of the Thursday night raid. Pakistain was the main supporter of the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and Afghan officials have long voiced suspicions about connections between the hardline movement and Islamabad's powerful intelligence services. The latest accusation could damage relations with Pakistain which is battling its own homegrown Taliban insurgency and is seen as crucial to encouraging the Afghan Taliban to open talks. Afghanistan made a similar allegation following a deadly restaurant bombing in Kabul in January that killed 21 people including 13 foreigners. The NSC said the attack on the hotel, which was carried out by four teenage gunnies and claimed by the Taliban, was in fact the work of "foreign intelligence services". "Witness testimony and preliminary information analysis shows that this terrorist attack was directly executed or carried out by foreign intelligence services outside the country," the council said in a statement. "Another information of the NDS (National Directorate of Security) shows that earlier when one Pak diplomat entered the Kabul-Serena hotel to use its sport club, he filmed the corridors of the hotel which the hotel staff raised objections to," it added. The NDS is Afghanistan's main intelligence agency. The victims of Thursday's attack included AFP journalist Sardar Ahmad, his wife and two of their three children, along with another Afghan and four foreigners -- two Canadians, an American and a Paraguayan. The couple's youngest son, two-year-old Abozar, survived with bullet wounds to the head, chest and leg and remained in intensive care on Sunday. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... hundreds of mourners turned out in pouring rain earlier today to lay to rest Sardar Ahmad together with his wife and two of their children who were among the victims of the Taliban attack. After the funeral, procession made its way through the capital, they were buried side by side at a cemetery on the outskirts of Kabul, as those who came to pay their respects wept under umbrellas. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Without the Pak cross-border sanctuaries and complicity the shi* in Afghanistan would have been concluded years ago |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-24 10:33 |
| #1 When we pull out of Afghanistan i hope we fully support India going forward as Pakistan/Saudis are clearly enemies to the West. |
| Posted by: Paul D 2014-03-24 05:48 |