The Taleban claimed responsibility for yesterday's suicide bomb attack in Kabul and promised more to come under Afghanistan's first elected president, who is just days away from being announced. "We claim responsibility for all attacks against foreign troops in Afghanistan, as well as today's attack in Kabul," Taleban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told AFP by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.
| ...a bearded man with grenades strapped under his traditional long smock blew himself up in the city's bustling "Chicken Street"... |
| "We dunnit an' we're glad!" |
"There will be more attacks around the country such as (yesterday's) attacks." Three Icelandic peacekeepers, an unidentified foreign woman and three Afghans were wounded when a bearded man with grenades strapped under his traditional long smock blew himself up in the city's bustling "Chicken Street" at 3:30 p.m. Dozens of people were browsing through its bulging antique and carpet shops in autumn afternoon sunshine when the bomber struck. His ruptured body ended up on the sidewalk beneath two woven red carpets hung on display. The attack in downtown Kabul was the boldest of several attacks by the Taleban since the Oct. 9 presidential elections, which they failed to disrupt through violence despite pledging to do so. It also came as the vote count neared to a close, surpassing 81 percent. |