30 dead, hundreds wounded as Taliban attack rattles Kabul

[MariaThinks]

Source: Times of India

KABUL: At least 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded when a Taliban truck bomb tore through central Kabul and a fierce firefight broke out Tuesday, a week after the insurgents launched their annual spring offensive.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a densely crowded neighbourhood, which sent clouds of acrid smoke billowing into the sky and rattled windows several kilometres away.

The brazen assault near the defence ministry marks the first major Taliban attack in the Afghan capital since the insurgents announced the start of this year's fighting season.


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[AllyCat]

1. OH no. This is just awful!

I hope they are able to get some help. Doubt our government will do anything since they are brown.

[AxionExcel]

2. .

[winstars]

3. With phrases like "Annual spring offensive" and "this years fighting season" how do ya beat 'im...

I'm serious.

[MynameisBlarney]

4. Yeah...

Much easier said than done.
No invading army has had much luck in Afghanistan.

[uppityperson]

5. K&R for people

[AuntPatsy]

6. So many such stories, what makes me ill is that we as a nation mourn such actions in

certain other countries for days but in others such as there, it's a passing thought, barely a mention on the us media outlets, this world is much smaller than so many realize, why can't we rise above such baseless horrific actions, I just cannot comprehend such for want of a better word, evil.

[maxsolomon]

8. why can't we rise above? good question for the Taliban

they're the ones killing their fellow Afghanis.

unfortunately, you feel more empathy for places you've been, people who share your culture - i.e. Paris v. Kabul. it's human nature. we are tribal animals.

the Pashtun are tribal animals too. that's how they can rationalize this terror. they're attacking other Afghani ethnicities, or "apostates", or tools of America - but never "true muslims".

[AuntPatsy]

9. I'm able to feel empathy for a murderer on death row, I don't have to know, like or even

respect that particular individual but I have to admit depending on the specifics of the crime I would still favor an early demise, I believe jail to be a torture devise and find life sentences to be nothing more than a crime in itself against humanity,so it would have to be quick...

the horrors "we" as in world wide humans are capable of leaves me with no belief that our species are all that special....

Women can be true Muslims, sadly that does not protect many from being terrorized...it's not that simple, yes we tend to gravitate towards familiarity but that is no protection from becoming another statistic...

JMO

We have our own version of taliban men mindsets right inside our own borders, glass houses and all...

[Eugene]

7. Death toll rises to 64 in Taliban's deadliest Kabul attack since 2011

Source: The Guardian

Death toll rises to 64 in Taliban's deadliest Kabul attack since 2011

Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul
Wednesday 20 April 2016 13.33 BST

The Afghan government has revised the death toll after Tuesday’s Taliban attack in Kabul to 64, in what appears to be the deadliest assault on the Afghan capital since 2001. An additional 347 were injured, many of them civilians.

Previous large-scale attacks, on a Shia mosque in 2011 and the Indian embassy in 2008, killed 54 and 58 people, respectively.

Officials initially said 30 people had died on Tuesday, but failed to account for what had happened inside the base targeted in the attack.

During morning rush hour, a suicide bomber struck an elite military unit that was training bodyguards for Afghan politicians and officials. According to a security source, at least 11 personnel were killed, including a nephew of the second vice-president, Sarwar Danish.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/death-toll-rises-talibans-deadliest-attack-kabul-since-2011