“The Taliban were extracting maximum propaganda advantage by doing it on the day that parliament was meeting to consider the appointment of new Defence Minister Massoom Stanekzai…” As if to emphasize that the regime Massoom Stanekzai would be serving would not be there for long.
“Taliban attack on Afghan parliament in Kabul ends,” BBC, June 22, 2015 (thanks to Persian Prince):
A co-ordinated Taliban attack on the Afghan parliament in Kabul has ended with all six gunmen killed, the interior ministry says.
Attackers detonated a huge car bomb outside the gates, stormed the compound, then entered a building next to the chamber.
Police evacuated the premises, while trying to fight the gunmen off.
The Taliban say they carried out the attack to coincide with a vote to endorse a new defence minister.
The spokesman for the interior ministry, Sediq Seddiqi, said the gunmen had attempted to storm the parliament building itself after the gates were breached by the suicide bomb.
They were fought off and entered a building under construction next to parliament. MPs were showered with broken glass, and the chamber filled with smoke as the fighting went on. It took nearly an hour before all the firing stopped.
At least 18 people are reported to have been wounded. Mr Seddiqi said no MP had been injured.
Pictures on social media showed parliament full of smoke and people running for cover.
Television was broadcasting live from the parliament building when the attackers struck. MPs were seen fleeing the building.
Even by Afghan standards, these were very dramatic scenes, and police had a complex operation on their hands, says the BBC’s David Loyn in Kabul.
The Taliban were extracting maximum propaganda advantage by doing it on the day that parliament was meeting to consider the appointment of new Defence Minister Massoom Stanekzai, our correspondent says….
David says
Time to scrap all the hand wringing about civilian casualties. Time to destroy all muslim terrorists, whether they call themselves Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS, or whatever. I hope no one is offended, but I had rather see 10,000 civilian casualties in these muslim enclaves, than 100 in the USA. We did not start them on this global “jihad”, but since their stated objective is our complete destruction, it is the OBLIGATION of this U.S. government to protect our citizens by any means necessary, including nuclear weapons.
nicu says
If a country would act like these Musels – it would have been bombed already .
Why they get away with their crap ?
mortimer says
Most of the Afghans agree with most of what the Taliban supports…but they want it less enthusiastically.
In other words, most Afghans want Sharia in theory, but not in actual fact.
Paul says
Agree…and the longer we wait the more destructive our response will need to be.
Angemon says
No, no, no, Mr. Taliban – you should be framing that in a way that makes it seem like muhammad was being insulted. How else do you expect to look legitimate in the eyes of the Western Left? There’s only so much they can overlook…
mortimer says
The Taliban ‘votes’ with bombs.
fido says
There’s virtually no end to what the libtard progressives can overlook…if it means a fringe group voting for them. “Anything for power” is the new leftist mantra. To hell with real American citizens, to hell with law, to hell with the Constitution…line up with the leftist media and let the lying propaganda, endless excuses and obfuscation begin!! ANYTHING for political power!!
mortimer says
Didn’t Obama and co. think they could negotiate with the Taliban. There seems no hope of negotiating anything with the Taliban.
When will Muslims realize that Islam per se is the problem?
Actions like those of the Taliban show that Islam is not compatible with democracy.
Paleologos says
Far too many indistinguishable islamic terrorists abound in the Middle East.
If I was POTUS, I would arm, supply, and make U.S. troops (under U.S. command) available to Israel.
If any of the islamic groups so much as twitch their way towards Israel, I would have them vaporized.
… and I would have bombed all of Iran’s nuclear sites into infinity a long time ago. We can do this; trust me. 🙂 …
I spent my whole career as a contract negotiator for the U.S. Navy.
I know our military capabilities.
R/
Paleologos
Walter Sieruk says
At least one of the jihadist attackers at this murderous affront was a suicide/homicide bomber. This is ,for a large part, the result of the harm done in Islamic mind programming centers .Which are called madrasas. For example, the book entitled SECRETS OF THE KORAN by Don Richardson which on pages 69,70 informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslims youth in the Muslim world’s religious schools called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran… these schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorist… When male students ,isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promise sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique and the Koran is a perfect guidebook.”
fido says
Yes, sadly, these madrasas are factories for producing future human targets. Infected with islamo-satanism there is little hope of avoiding massive bloodshed worldwide as this muslim cancer continues to metastasize. Lock and load, there’s going to be a lot of bloodshed in the years to come…and an awful lot of wasted lives in the name of allah (satan).
Vox Populi says
Wait, Oblablama just finished telling us those were basically mislabelled as terrorists, and are in fact moderate independentists, and basically pacifists. Something I’m missing here? Or will Noth Korea, or Putin be blamed for this attack?
profitsbeard says
Funny how Allah needs homicidal maniacs to spread his “message”.
Any message that requires homicidal maniacs is a psychosis not an apotheosis.