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| Taliban Car Bomb Targets British Military Convoy in Kabul |
| 2015-10-12 |
| [AnNahar] A Taliban suicide boom-mobileer struck a British forces convoy in central 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.... Sunday, triggering a powerful kaboom in an attack that comes two weeks after the resurgent turban group overran a key northern city. The rush-hour bombing, which sent a plume of smoke into the sky, maimed at least three civilians including a child, as the Taliban ramp up attacks on government and foreign targets. The intensity of the blast sent an armored vehicle crashing into a sidewalk, its front end badly mangled, and left the area littered with charred pieces of twisted metal. "The incident took place while a suicide boom-mobileer detonated an explosive-packed car in the Joy Shir area... of Kabul city," the interior ministry said. "The target of the attacker were the foreign forces convoy." Security forces cordoned off the area as ambulances with wailing sirens rushed to the scene, but the ministry said the human toll of the blast was limited. "The ministry of interior condemns in the strongest terms the suicide kaboom which resulted in the wounding of three civilians," it said. The Kabul police said the maimed included a woman and a child. The British defence ministry confirmed that their military convoy came under attack in Kabul but said the kaboom was caused by an improvised bomb. "There were no (British) casualties," it said in a statement. The emboldened bully boyz have stepped up attacks around Afghanistan since they launched their annual summer offensive in late April. The Taliban captured the northern city of Kunduz on September 28, their most spectacular victory since being toppled from power in a 2001 U.S.-led invasion. The seizure of the scenic provincial capital for three days was a stinging blow to Western-trained Afghan forces, who have largely been fighting on their own since the end of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... 's combat mission in December. The Taliban said Sunday's bombing was carried out to avenge the recent "barbaric bombardment in Kunduz that martyred our civilians and doctors." - 'War Crime' - NATO forces are under fire after a U.S. air strike on October 3 pummeled a hospital in Kunduz run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), killing at least 12 staff and 10 patients. The medical charity shut down the trauma center, branding the incident a "war crime" and demanding an international investigation into the incident, which sparked an avalanche of global condemnation. The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make compensation payments for those killed or injured in the strike, while suggesting that U.S. forces in Afghanistan could also pay for repairs to the hospital. But MSF Sunday said it had officially not received any compensation offer, adding that it would not accept funds for repairs in line with its policy of rejecting support from governments. "The offer of compensation at this stage cannot preempt the result of present and future investigations, nor preclude any further claims or rights of those affected by the U.S. "MSF reiterates its call for independent investigation." President Barack Obama Because I won... has apologized over the strike, with three different investigations -- led by NATO, U.S. forces and Afghan officials -- currently under way. The Afghan government claims to have wrested back control of Kunduz city but sporadic firefights continue with pockets of bully boyz as soldiers, backed by NATO special forces, conduct door-to-door clearance operations. As fighting spreads in neighboring Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan provinces, concerns are mounting that the seizure of Kunduz was merely the opening gambit in a new, bolder strategy to tighten the insurgency's grip across northern Afghanistan. Most NATO combat troops pulled out of Afghanistan last year but a small contingent focused on training and counter-terrorism operations remains, including roughly 10,000 American soldiers. |
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