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| Afghanistan |
| Official: Pakistani group behind Kabul attacks |
| 2010-03-02 |
| An Afghan intelligence official on Tuesday blamed the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last week's car bomb and suicide attacks that killed 16 people in the heart of the capital of Kabul. Lashkar-e-Taiba is the same group that India blames for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 people. The Afghan Taliban had already claimed responsibility within hours of Friday's assaults that targeted residential hotels popular with foreigners, but the assertion that a Pakistan-based militants were involved threatened to derail tentative peace talks between Pakistan and India. Six Indians were among the dead. The Mumbai attack led to a cutoff in peace talks and extremely high tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. Saeed Ansari, a spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his agency has evidence that Pakistanis were involved in the attacks. He said several of the attackers were heard speaking Urdu, a Pakistani language. |
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