[ALMANAR.LB] A huge blast struck near the entrance 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....
's international airport on Monday during the peak lunchtime period, officials said, killing five people and wounding more than ten others.
"The kaboom occurred at the first checkpoint of Kabul airport," said deputy Kabul police chief Sayyed Gul Agha Rouhani.
Taliban takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group grabbed credit for the attack, which comes after a wave of lethal bombings in the capital on Friday as the insurgency escalates following a bitter power transition within the Taliban.
Taliban front man, Thabihollah, said in a statement that the suicide kaboom targeted two foreign military vehicles. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
there were no confirmation about the nationalities of the victims.
The blasts on Friday struck near an army complex, a police academy and a US special forces base, killing at least 51 people, officials said.
The wave of violence underscores Afghanistan's volatile security situation amid a faltering grinding of the peace processor.