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Afghanistan: Jihadis murder 44, injure hundreds in wave of bombings

Aug 8, 2015 8:51 am By Robert Spencer

Afghanistan Kabul bombingsOnce the U.S. troops are entirely gone or reduced to an insignificant symbolic presence, how long do you think the Kabul government will last before it is toppled and the Taliban is back in power? Months? Weeks? Days?

The entire U.S. incursion into Afghanistan has been wrongheaded, mismanaged, goalless, rudderless, and monstrously wasteful.

“44 dead, hundreds wounded in lethal wave of Kabul bombings,” AFP, August 8, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

Kabul: Eight more fatalities were confirmed on Saturday from a barrage of bombings in Kabul, taking the toll to 44 in the deadliest day in the Afghan capital since the NATO combat mission ended in December.

The explosions, which devastated buildings and overwhelmed hospitals with hundreds of casualties, yesterday were the first major militant assaults on Kabul since the announcement of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s death.

In the first attack, a powerful truck bomb tore through the centre of Kabul just after midnight yesterday, killing 15 civilians and wounding 240 others.

The Taliban distanced themselves from the bombing which struck near a Kabul military base — as they usually do in attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties.

Less than 24 hours later, at least 20 people were killed when a suicide attacker dressed in police uniform blew himself up at the entrance of Kabul Police Academy.

The Taliban were quick to claim responsibility for that attack, which marked a serious breach of security at a premier training institute for Afghan security forces.

Explosions and gunfire also erupted when Camp Integrity, a US special forces base in Kabul, came under attack late yesterday, killing nine people.

“One Resolute Support (NATO) service member and eight Resolute Support contracted civilians were killed,” a NATO statement said without revealing their nationalities.

Military jets were heard flying over the centre of Kabul shortly after the Camp Integrity explosions.

The carnage underscored the volatile security situation in Afghanistan amid a faltering peace process with the Taliban as Afghan forces face their first summer fighting season without full NATO support….

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  1. cs says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 9:43 am

    Three months. Parts will fall fast, others slowly, they are just waiting.

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 10:27 am

    Was ramadan extended or something?

    • particolor says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 10:30 pm

      I Believe so ! There are still 5 and a Half Billion “Unbelievers” out there for “Brain Realignment” !

    • Karen says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 7:09 pm

      Wasn’t this President Obama’s pet war? Shouldn’t he feel a bit like a stakeholder in this? Nope, I guess not.

      It’s Iraq all over again; everything our soldiers died to accomplish will be slowly undone.

  3. umbra says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 10:56 am

    The kabul government may persist for a while after NATO leaves, but its authority may not extend any further than the city limits of kabul.

    • particolor says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 10:44 pm

      Where a Suspicious Looking Wooden Horse stands ??

      • umbra says

        Aug 9, 2015 at 12:05 pm

        Could also possibly be a suspicious looking wooden donkey, camel or sheep.

  4. abad says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 11:23 am

    The United States simply cannot save Afghanistan nor any other Muslim nation.

    Only the Lord Jesus Himself can save Muslims from their evil ways.

    The question is, will they accept Him on the Day of Judgement, or reject Him?

    • Jerry says

      Aug 10, 2015 at 10:04 am

      The US can save Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, if they do unto
      Kabul, Karachi, Islamabad and Tehran what worked effectively
      to save Japan and helped to restore it into the path of a
      civilised country.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 11:33 am

    Many of those murderous bombing attacks are jihad suicide/homicide bombing attacks. The jihadists who commit those kind of bombing are so thoroughly mind programmed sick and deluded that they actually view their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.” This is as warped as a person can be. This is also shows the result of the great amount of harm that is done in Islamic mind programming centers, .Which are madrasas . The people who come out of madrasas are so very sick, warped and deluded that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As exposes by the author Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN.. Which informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim world’s religious schools, called madrasas, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran…these schools become breeding grounds for terrorists… 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 attention of 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 its perfect guidebook.”

  6. sidney penny says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    “monstrously wasteful.”

    Real waste of taxpayers money.

    “Taliban is back in power” with Pakistan support ,again with American aid money?

    • particolor says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 10:41 pm

      Please send more Gunpowder ! The last lot Blew Up at the Mosque when Stupid Mohammed lit a Sneaky Cigarette !
      Yours Painfully…..Imam Brainshrinker

  7. Westman says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 12:39 am

    “..whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. ” “Islam means peace”. “There is no compulsion in Islam”. Blah, blah, etc.

    Muslims certainly demonstrate wild emotions, agressive demanding, and killing each other in spite of all the protests to the contrary; usually accompanied by assertions that members of the other Muslim group are not “real” Muslims. Which Islam is true, Shia or Sunni? Which is real, what Islam claims, or, what it does in the name of Allah?

    Will the real Kaliphate please stand up before you all wreck the world for the unbelievers and yourselves?

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