[Pak Daily Times] An attack on a cop shoppe in the west of Kabul on Friday ended without casualties, police and the Interior Ministry said. An attacker threw a hand grenade at the station, ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi said on his official Twitter account, and soon afterwards police said they had regained control. "There were shootouts in Police District Five. There were no casualties. Now everything is under control and we are investigating the case," said Muhammad Zahir, head of the criminal investigation department for Kabul police.
Police officials denied the incident was a suicide kaboom. Earlier, a Rooters witness heard gunfire and at least two kabooms, and a police source, speaking on condition of anonymity,
... for fear of being murdered...
said several jacket wallahs had attacked the cop shoppe.
The Taliban generally target military personnel or foreigners, such as in the attack on a convoy of NATO
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-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) vehicles in late October, which killed 13. That attack was also in the west of the city, an area which does not have a high concentration of foreign residents. A huge suicide bomb killed 80 people at a Shia shrine in Kabul last week, an attack the Taliban condemned.