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| Indian consulate attacked in western Afghanistan |
| 2014-05-24 |
| [DAWN] Gunmen armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked an Indian Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday, though its diplomatic staff escaped unharmed, police said. At least three gunnies opened fire on the consulate from a nearby building in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , provincial police chief Abdul Sami Qatra said. Qatra said police and soldiers killed three assailants in a gunbattle that saw the building catch fire as authorities evacuated neighbors. Syed Akbaruddin, a front man for India's Ministry of External Affairs, said a deployment of the paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police at the consulate held off the assault until Afghan forces arrived. He said all the Indians at the consulate were safe. ''Our consulate and our diplomatic presence in Afghanistan have been under threat,'' Akbaruddin told TimesNow TV, without elaborating. No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... a group called Ansar al-Tawhid that appears to be based in Afghanistan posted a video online May 17 that threatened India, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors myrmidon websites. Herat lies near Afghanistan's border with Iran and is considered one of the safer cities in the country. In September 2013, Taliban gunnies launched a similar assault on the US Consulate in the city, killing at least four Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Somebody wasn't too happy about the election. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-24 08:25 |