...the Pashtun equivalent of men...Talking to TOLOnews in his first media appearance after the attack, Mr. Saleh labelled the Taliban as the enemies of the Afghan people and said the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
had informed him about such an attack three days before.
At least four attackers were involved in the siege which started with a boom-mobileing at around 4:40 pm Kabul time on Sunday, July 28. It targeted the Green Trend office, a political movement run by Mr. Saleh, in Shaheed Circle in Kabul’s PD4, in an area surrounded with civilian houses, a university, and a small township.
Mr. Saleh was in his office along with almost 100 people when the attack happened. He was sharply evacuated from the area.
Photos on social media showed Mr. Saleh with a stain of blood on his right arm.
The attack ended at around 11 pm on Sunday night after all four attackers were bumped off.
The complex attack happened hours after Mr. Saleh attended the inaugural ceremony of their electoral campaigning with incumbent 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...
and the Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish.
According to Mr. Saleh, at least 30 people, 22 of them members of the Green Trend movement, bit the dust including two members of his family.
"I was not assuming that they (insurgents) use a truck full of explosives to target me. I think there are several reasons for attacking me, and one of the reasons is that they (insurgents) want to disrupt and remove the determination of those humans who want to oppose and stand against Pakistain, ISIS and Taliban, but keeping in mind that we are not against Pakistain as a state, but oppose the interreference by it," Mr. Saleh said.
He said he resisted the attackers alongside his six colleagues for 55 minutes and then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace through a way on the rooftop.
"When they (attackers) took position here, four or five minutes later, the
Mr. Saleh however said that the Afghan government will continue its efforts for talks with the Taliban.