Afghan authorities on Tuesday said "regional spy agencies" were behind a rare suicide kaboom targeting Shia Moslems that killed more than 80 people in a veiled reference to Pak intelligence.Attorney General Eshaq Aloko said two men had been placed in long-term storage
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over the December attack, which struck a crowd of worshippers on Ashura in Kabul.
President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
blamed Pak sectarian myrmidon outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
for the atrocity, which was unprecedented on such a holy day, and urged Islamabad to act.
Aloko said the attack was planned in Pakistain's northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, by "regional spy agencies" aimed at "provoking sectarian violence".
"Although the Jhangvi group grabbed credit, it was criminal masterminded by some spy agencies in our neighbouring countries," Aloko said.
Afghans blame Pakistain for fuelling much of the violence in their country, where the Taliban are leading a 10-year insurgency against the government and 130,000 Western troops.
The prosecutor said one of those placed in long-term storage
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came from Afghanistan's Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, which borders Pakistain's krazed killer-infested tribal belt, and was paid 10,000 Pak rupees ($100) to bring two suicide attackers to Kabul.
"One attacker went kaboom!", the second fled the area," Aloko said.
He said the two placed in long-term storage
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men both confessed over the plot and the case was now closed.
The kaboom happened at the entrance to a riverside shrine, where hundreds of Shias had gathered.
The Taliban denied responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in the Afghan capital in three years.
"The case is closed for us now. We have completed our investigation, and the case will be sent to the court," Aloko said.