Taliban Attack Afghan Government Buildings, Killing At Least 20, Before Holbrooke Visit »
Posted By tehranchik 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Eight Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked three Afghan government buildings Wednesday in a coordinated assault that killed 20 people in the heart of Kabul just ahead of a planned visit from the new U.S. envoy to the region.
The attacks in a city dense with barricades and armed guards underscored the difficulty of fending off the Taliban even with abundant troops and weaponry as the U.S. beefs up its presence.
The assailants sent three text messages to the leader of their terror cell in Pakistan before launching Wednesday's assault, said Amrullah Saleh, chief of Afghanistan's intelligence agency, underlining the links between militants in the two countries.
Five men armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked the Justice Ministry in late morning, shooting at workers and temporarily trapping the minister and scores of others inside, witnesses said. The gunmen appeared to hold the building for about two hours before Afghan security forces regained control about midday, according to an AP reporter on the scene.
At about the same time, two men in suicide vests blew themselves up at the ministry's correction department across town. A third assailant in a suicide vest was shot as he tried to force his way into the Education Ministry, about a half-mile (one kilometer) from the Justice Ministry attack, said Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi.
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Is this the Taliban that Karzai is inviting to 'return to their country'?
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Unfortunately, Mr. Karzai is nothing than a puppet on a string. He won´t keep the Taliban from killing, because for many Afghans, he´s only the representative of military and political occupation. Hatred is growing in Afghanistan, a fact also shown by the recent attac on the German embassy. I don´t think that the latest assault might be read as an invitation, neither for Richard Holbrooke nor for more troops!
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