Posted on 04/18/2015 3:13:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting to collect their pay at a bank here on Saturday, killing 33 and wounding at least 50 in the bloodiest such attack so far this year, officials said. All of the victims were civilians, according to the police.
The blast was one of three separate explosions heard in quick succession in this eastern city around 8 a.m. Saturday, the police said.
Unusually, the Taliban spokesman for eastern Afghanistan, Zabiullah Mujahid, disavowed the bank attack soon after it happened, denying in three different languages on Twitter that the insurgents had been behind it. “We condemn/deny involvement,” Mr. Mujahid wrote.
In 2011, the Taliban claimed responsibility for an even deadlier attack on the same branch of Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, in which seven suicide attackers killed 38 bank customers, also on a payday. Many Afghans collect their salaries directly from banks as a safeguard against the country’s rampant corruption.
Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, the police chief of Nangarhar Province, of which Jalalabad is the capital, put the death toll at 22 and the number of wounded at more than 50. But the head of the provincial health department, Najibullah Kamawal, said that hospitals had already received the bodies of 33 victims, along with more than 100 wounded.
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It’s OK, they weren’t “real” Muslims.
Unfortunately, the “fake” outnumber the “real” Muslims by about a million to one.
I wonder too!
The Taliban despite their Sharia stuff in Afghanistan, and much inflated threat to the West at a time, or even outside Afghanistan/Pakistan, have always been ‘nobodies’. Think those behind-the-throne, so to speak.
I think I’d opt for direct deposit
What do they use for deposits? Goat droppings?
Their slots are round and you just have to drop each lil dropping in or what??
Or is direct deposit, you hold the goat up to the hole and....well you get the picture....
Oh, those peaceful, fun-loving moozlums!
On other sites I’ve seen stories that ISIS is claiming credit for this one, their first in Afghanistan.
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