...Arabic for students...
grabbed credit for a suicide car-kaboom on a cop shoppe in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday which the government said killed 14 people and maimed 145.
There has been no let-up in violence in Afghanistan even though the Taliban and the United States appear close to a historic pact for US troops to withdraw in exchange for a Taliban promise the country would not be used as a base from which to plot attacks by hard boys.
The blast, in the west of the city during the morning rush hour, sent a huge cloud of grey smoke billowing into the sky.
The Taliban said a "recruitment centre" had been attacked by one of their jacket wallahs.
"A large number of soldiers and police were killed or maimed," the Taliban said in a statement.
Deputy Interior Minister Khoshal Sadat later told a news conference 14 people had been killed and 145 maimed. Four of the dead were coppers and the rest civilians, while 92 of the maimed were civilians, he said.
The bomb went off when the vehicle carrying the device was stopped at a checkpoint outside the cop shoppe, said interior ministry front man Nasrat Rahimi.
| Khaama Press adds, with great sarcasm: |
The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said “The terrorist attack by Taliban has totally ‘Martyred’ a mosque in 6th district of Kabul city.”
The statement further added that the ‘Wild Taliban’ neither have respect to humanity nor to Islamic values.
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives close to Police District#6 police station in West of Kabul city earlier today.