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| Afghanistan |
| Nine dead in Afghan Taliban's attacks |
| 2015-08-08 |
| [NATION.PK] Taliban Lions of Islam killed nine people in multiple attacks on police targets in Afghanistan Thursday, in their first major assaults since an acrimonious power transition after the announcement of leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... 's death. In the first attack a suicide truck bomber killed six people early Thursday when he struck a police compound in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of insurgency-racked Pashtun-infested Logar province just south of Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... . The force of the kaboom damaged government buildings near the site, which was left littered with debris and shards of broken glass. The bombing highlights growing insecurity amid a faltering grinding of the peace processor with the Taliban as Afghan forces face their first summer fighting season without full NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... support. "A water truck filled with explosives exploded when it was stopped at the gate of the Quick Reaction Force (police) compound," said deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Qari Wara. "It was a powerful kaboom... which killed three members of the Quick Reaction Force and three civilians." 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. .. condemned the "cowardly act" in a statement, adding that the "killing of innocent people is an unforgivable crime that can be justified in no religion". In two other separate attacks in the southern province of Kandahar, Talibs raided a police checkpoint and a cop shoppe, sparking brief shootouts that killed three local security officials, including an intelligence officer. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... at least 17 people, including 12 Afghan army soldiers, were killed in a helicopter crash in the volatile southern province of Zabul, although officials said the incident was caused by a technical fault and not holy warrior activity. The attacks in Pashtun-infested Logar and Kandahar mark the first major holy warrior assaults since the Taliban confirmed last week the death of their leader Mullah Omar, who led the murderous Moslem movement for some 20 years. |
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