Posted on 08/13/2019 3:13:40 AM PDT by robowombat
At Least 14 Killed, 145 Wounded In Taliban Car Bombing In Kabul August 07, 2019 06:15 GMT UPDATED August 07, 2019 18:18 GMT
https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-kabul-car-bomb-oolice-station-dozens-injured/30097712.html
KABUL -- At least 14 people have been killed and 145 wounded after a Taliban suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside a police station in Kabul, according to the Afghan Public Health Ministry.
Women and children were among the victims of the attack that occurred at around 9 a.m. local time on August 7, Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi said.
Deputy Interior Minister Khoshal Sadat told reporters that 92 of the wounded were civilians. Four police officers were among those killed, Sadat said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes amid peace talks between the United States and the Taliban aimed at bringing the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan to an end.
Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, told a news conference that continued Taliban attacks showed that the militant group has "no commitment to peace."
The bombing targeted the police District 6 headquarters in Golaee Dawa Khana, a minority Shi'ite neighborhood in western Kabul. A military training school is situated in the same neighborhood.
Eyewitnesses said gunfire could be heard after the explosion that occurred as many Kabul residents were busy preparing for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, which begins on August 11.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that the bombing was a response to "crimes" committed by government forces.
Mujahid also said that "positive progress" was being made in the peace talks with U.S. negotiators.
U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has cited "excellent progress" in the negotiations, tweeted, "Indiscriminate attacks and intentional Injury to civilians are never warranted."
"The focus should be on immediately reducing violence as we move closer to intra-Afghan negotiations that will produce a political roadmap and a permanent ceasefire," Khalilzad wrote in a separate tweet.
Khalilzad has voiced hope that a final agreement could be reached by September 1. But the Taliban continue to refuse to talk to the Kabul government, dismissing it as a U.S. puppet.
The August 7 attack was the 16th to target Kabul this year. At least 113 people have been killed and 732 others have been injured in the attacks.
Also on August 7, a bomb wounded at least eight civilians, including women and children, in the western city of Herat, according to Abdul Ahid Walizada, the provincial police chief's spokesman.
And remember, America has suspended combat operations against the Taliban during peace talks.
They sure like to blow chit up,don’t they?
There is no solution for Afghanistan short of what the West will not do. Afghanistan is why Neutron bombs were invented.
More car bomb violence! We need common sense discussion about car bomb violence! Red flag laws and universal background checks would end car bomb violence! Quick, while the corpses of the victims are warm...have the President meet the parents of a dead child and cry with them, so he’ll make an emotional decision to sign the legislation!
The proper response should always be carpet bombing....
(Even if we are leaving - just something to remember us by.)
Everyone has a special button on the dash for this, no?
If only, but we both know that will never happen. W had a chance to level Tora Bora, but pissed it away and even this President who fights anyone and everyone is probably not going to commit to something like that, though I like to think that maybe it will change at one second after noon on January 20, 2021.
We did that with billions and billions of MOABs. Doesnt work. Leave them.
If we leave what will the CIA use for cover for their heroin operation?
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Nation building in Myanmar?
Let that sink in.
They should have been wiping out Talibunny nests across the country instead of guarding the opium poppy fields.
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