What? Why? Were the EU police drawing Muhammad cartoons? They must have provoked the poor dears of the Taliban somehow, no? Time to ramp up the “dialogue” with the Taliban! That will fix this up in a jiffy!
“Taliban attack on EU police vehicle kills three in Kabul,” by Shah Marai, AFP, May 17, 2015:
Three people including a foreigner working with the European Union police were killed Sunday when a Taliban attacker rammed his explosives-laden car into a foreign convoy in Kabul, the latest attack of Afghanistan’s fighting season.
At least 18 people were wounded in the attack, which comes three days after 14 people — mostly foreigners — were killed in a Taliban assault on a Kabul guest house that trapped dozens attending a concert.
The suicide bomber targeted the foreign convoy, which included two vehicles of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL), during the Sunday morning rush hour near Kabul airport.
“A suicide bomber detonated his Toyota sedan targeting a foreign forces convoy near Kabul airport today at 9:00 am,” Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi told AFP.
“The target of the attacker was the foreign forces convoy. So far we have two women dead, 18 others wounded, all of them civilians,” he said, adding that three children were among those wounded.
A foreigner working with EUPOL was also killed, a spokesman for the unit told AFP without specifying his nationality….