“The terrorists planned to conduct a big attack at end of Ramadan in the city among crowds of people as they went out shopping for Eid… security forces prevented a disaster from happening.”
But this one did, and so the jihadis responsible can hope that Allah will be pleased with their Ramadan acts of piety.
“16 killed, 38 wounded by blast in southern Afghan city,” AFP, May 22, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
KANDAHAR: At least 16 people were killed and 38 wounded Tuesday when a minivan packed with explosives detonated as security forces were trying to defuse it in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
Security forces in Kandahar had already cleared the area around a bus station where the van was found, provincial governor spokesman Daud Ahmadi said.
“As the security forces were trying to defuse the van, it detonated,” said police spokesman Mohammad Qasim Azad.
“The latest figures show 16 dead and 38 wounded people brought to the hospital. We still have two ambulances at the site because there might be more people under the rubble,” Dr Nehmat Barak, chief of the Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar, said.
Ahmadi confirmed the toll, adding that the dead included four security forces personnel. At least five children and 10 members of the security forces were among the wounded.
The blast was so powerful that the majority of the casualties were passers-by outside the cleared area.
Ahmadi said security forces also found a large container of explosives, rocket-propelled grenades, suicide vests, and ammunition near the site.
“The terrorists planned to conduct a big attack at end of Ramadan in the city among crowds of people as they went out shopping for Eid… security forces prevented a disaster from happening,” one security official told AFP.
No group immediately claimed responsibility. The blast comes as the Taliban step up their spring offensive across the war-torn country….</blockquote
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Wherever there is Mohammadism, there is pain, suffering, death and destruction. Build an unbreachable border between the Dar al Islam and the Dar al Harb and keep Mohammadans out of the Dar al Harb.
mortimer says
Ramadan is the month of jihad in which the reward for JIHAD-MURDER is doubled … but like everything in Islam, there is more than one answer.
“Whoever does something good in this month, Allah multiplies it by 70”. -Tirmidhi
762x51FMJ says
Islam spreads by Swords
Of Enslavement and Death
Christianity by Words
Of free spoken Breath
To become a martyr under Islam you must die to kill someone…
Under Christianity can we live if we save them.
Marco says
A religious holiday celebrat d by murder. Ain’t Islam grand?
gravenimage says
The fun never stops from the “Religion of Peace”…
Anne Smith says
What on earth are US and British forces doing in Afghanistan anyway? Ever since the British first found India and colonised it there has been trouble from Afghanistan.
A total of 16,000 British were wiped out in 1842, in the retreat from Kabul, and only one survivor, Dr William Brydon, managed to get back to tell the sorry tale. It was an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 civilians who were extinguished by the Afghans. These native tribesmen wiped out one of the best armies in the world. They did it again more recently to the Russians.
It has not changed.
I can only assume that there is untold mineral wealth or a proposed pipeline for oil/gas/etc. which our rulers think make it worthwhile to send our people to be killed and maimed in such hostile territory.
Joe says
You get good at what you do. By now, the Afghans are going to extremely good at fighting.