Religion of Peace. The Religion of Peace struck out at a Hindu symbol in Afghanistan today as a car bomber drove into the Indian embassy in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul. The latest report shows 40 dead but I have the feeling that is going to rise as the day goes by. Here's some of the latest details from Breitbart:
While when one sees a car bomb do this kind of damage, it is tempting to blame al Qaeda...this is probably a Taliban attack in that many in the Taliban have roots in Pakistan and of course, Pakistan and India have been at odds for decades. However, at the latest count, only four Indians were killed in this bombing, with the vast majority of casualties being Afghans.
A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in what appeared to be the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.
The massive explosion detonated by a suicide bomber damaged two embassy vehicles entering the compound, near where dozens of Afghan men line up every morning to apply for visas.
President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing and said it was carried out by militants trying to rupture the friendship between Afghanistan and India.
While when one sees a car bomb do this kind of damage, it is tempting to blame al Qaeda...this is probably a Taliban attack in that many in the Taliban have roots in Pakistan and of course, Pakistan and India have been at odds for decades. However, at the latest count, only four Indians were killed in this bombing, with the vast majority of casualties being Afghans.
40 dead in Indian embassy blast in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in what appeared to be the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.
The massive explosion detonated by a suicide bomber damaged two embassy vehicles entering the compound, near where dozens of Afghan men line up every morning to apply for visas.
The embassy is located on a busy, tree-lined street near Afghanistan's Interior Ministry in the city center. Several nearby shops were damaged or destroyed in the blast, and smoldering ruins covered the street. The explosion rattled much of the Afghan capital.
"Several shopkeepers have died. I have seen shopkeepers under the rubble," said Ghulam Dastagir, a shopkeeper who was wounded in the blast.
Najib Nikzad, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said the blast killed 40 people. Earlier, Abdullah Fahim, the spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, said the explosion killed at least 28 people and wounded 141, but an update of the number of injured was not immediately available. The Interior Ministry said six police officers and three embassy guards were among those killed.
In Delhi, India's foreign minister said four Indians, including the military attache, were killed in the attack.
The explosion appeared to be the deadliest attack in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. It was the deadliest in Afghanistan since a suicide bomber killed more than 100 people at a dog fighting competition in Kandahar province in February.
Shortly after the attack, a woman ran out of a Kabul hospital screaming, crying and hitting her face with both of her hands. Her two children, a girl named Lima and a boy named Mirwais, had been killed.
"Oh my God!" the woman screamed. "They are both dead."
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing and said it was carried out by militants trying to rupture the friendship between Afghanistan and India.
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