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By Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul, theguardian.com, 28 March 2014
One child and a driver were killed and five people injured after a suicide attack on an aid agency in Kabul on Friday, the third bloody assault to hit the Afghan capital in a week as insurgents stepped up a campaign of violence ahead of presidential elections.
The girl and the driver died when a suicide bomber detonated his car outside the Roots of Peace landmine charity in Kabul and four gunmen stormed the aid agency's office. Four civilians and a policeman were injured in the attack, said a spokesman for the chief of police, Hashmat Stanikzai.
At least six Afghan and foreign staff from the charity were trapped inside during the five hour-long assault, with armed guards trying to hold off the attackers as others hid, and special forces fighting their way inside.
"There were five attackers, one blew up a car bomb, three detonated suicide vests and one was shot by the police" [....]
Comments
What I want to know is, did the Taliban read Marcuse, to learn about how little things like not being able to hold an election without the risk of bloodshed deligitimizes a regime, or is it just obvious.?..(cue the reference from Godfather II where Michael is in the car when the rebel blows himself up taking a couple of government soldiers with him)
by jollyroger on Sun, 03/30/2014 - 2:16am