Posted on 03/06/2020 6:04:11 AM PST by BenLurkin
Several prominent political leaders escaped the ceremony unhurt, including Abdullah Abdullah, the country's chief executive and a top contender in last year's presidential election.
The Taliban have denied they were behind the attack, and while no one has claimed responsibility for carrying it out, Afghanistan's upstart Islamic State affiliate has declared war on the country's minority Shiites. Most of the people attending the memorial service were Shiite.
The attack came just days after the United States and the Taliban signed an ambitious peace deal that lays out a conditions-based path to the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.
Friday's ceremony was held in the mostly Shiite Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of the capital, Kabul.
The memorial marked 25 years since the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Afghanistan's minority ethnic Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims.
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So, is nannie bloombergapart dispatching shannon t watts and the “Moms lookin’ for a little action” over there to demand an end to gun violence?
Still not our problem...
Sounds like yet more over there problems for over there people who need to stay over there.
Still not our problem...
They really know how to party.
Somehow... for some strange reason... I can’t really explain why, because it escapes me at the moment... I’m really not all that sad about this...
Just don’t know why... (/s, as is it’s needed...)
Clearly, they need more range time.
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