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| Attacks on army, police and U.S. special forces kill 50 in Kabul |
| 2015-08-09 |
| [REUTERS] A wave of attacks on the Afghan army and police and U.S. special forces in 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.... have killed at least 50 people and maimed hundreds, dimming hopes that the Taliban might be weakened by a leadership struggle after their longtime leader's death. The bloodshed began on Friday with a truck bomb that went kaboom!in a heavily populated district of the capital and ended with an hours-long battle at a base used by U.S. special forces. It became the deadliest day in Kabul for years. The Islamist Lions of Islam grabbed credit for both the police academy attack and the battle at the U.S. special forces base, though not for the truck bomb. The violence was a stark reminder of the difficulty of reviving a stalled grinding of the peace processor, conveying a no-compromise message from the Taliban following last week's revelation of Mullah Mohammad Omar's death and a dispute over the leadership of the insurgency. "The question is, who is sending the message?" said Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said the incident was the worst since it began recording civilian casualties in 2009, with 355 civilians killed or injured. The U.N. Special Representative, Nicholas Haysom, called it "extreme, irreversible and unjustifiable in any terms". On Saturday, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led coalition forces confirmed that one international service member and eight Afghan contractors had been killed in the attack on Camp Integrity, a base used by U.S. special forces near the main airport. |
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