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| Afghan forces hunt gunmen after American University attack |
| 2016-08-25 |
| [Foreign Desk News] Afghan cops combed the American University 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.... in the early hours of Thursday for suspected gunnies who might be still on the lam, following an attack on the compound that killed at least one person and sent students fleeing in panic. The assault at around 6:30 p.m. local time (10.00 a.m. ET) on Wednesday began with a large kaboom that officials said was a boom-mobile followed by gunfire, as suspected bully boyz battled into the complex where foreign staff and hundreds of pupils were working. Elite Afghan forces surrounded the walled compound and eventually worked their way inside, according to a senior interior ministry official. Details of casualties are still scarce, but the Afghan Public health Ministry said one guard was killed and at least 21 people were maimed, six critically. No foreigners were reported among the maimed. Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi told Rooters early on Thursday that security forces had rescued around 500 students from the university, which is popular with Afghanistan's elite. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 From Al Ahram: A brazen, hours-long militant attack on the American University of Afghanistan ended early Thursday after at least 12 people were killed and dozens were wounded in the assault on the sprawling campus on Kabul's outskirts, a government spokesman said. The dead included seven students, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi. Three police officers and two security guards were also killed, the ministry said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the assault but suspicion is likely to fall on the Taliban. The group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, would only tell the media that the Taliban are "investigating." |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-25 23:12 |