The latest roadside bomb (IED) that the Taliban detonated today in Afghanistan could not have been a worse PR disaster for them....oh wait, the Taliban don't care about PR. Nevermind. Thirteen Afghan civilians were killed in the blast today in eastern Afghanistan and yes, the toll includes women, children and elderly civilians.
From the article at DAWN:
A total of 13 civilians including children and women were killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials in Kabul said.
The blast hit a three-wheeled vehicle and killed “13 of our innocent civilian compatriots, including women, children and elderly men,” the interior ministry said in a statement.
The ministry blamed the attack on “enemies of Afghanistan’s people”, a phrase often used by officials to refer to the Taliban.
Some 28 Afghan civilians have now been killed in three roadside bombings in the last four days.
The latest attack happened in Khoshamand district of Paktika province which borders Pakistan, where militants have hideouts in the lawless border regions.
Here's the roll of the dice that the Taliban are playing - they are looking for as much carnage in a short period of time as possible and yes, they ARE targeting civilians - the strategy is that the people of Afghanistan will lash out at the government to stop it by having the U.S. and NATO troops leave. This is the same strategy that al Qaeda in Iraq tried and one that is also being used by the Taliban inside of Pakistan.
The unfortunate thing for the Afghan civilians is that this strategy has worked in the past in Pakistan as the people protested to the government, who at that time decided to pen some peace deals with the Taliban. On the other hand, this strategy totally backfired on al Qaeda in Iraq as the civilians there banded together to take up arms against the monsters.
Just as an update, all of those Leftist organizations in America who have profusely protested any killing of Afghan civilians by U.S. military operations in the past, have been completely silent regarding the latest Taliban spree of death - apparently those Leftists in America don't really care about Afghan civilians, they just want to lash out at America's troops. That's obvious.
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Thirteen Afghans die in latest roadside bomb
KABUL: A total of 13 civilians including children and women were killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials in Kabul said.
The blast hit a three-wheeled vehicle and killed “13 of our innocent civilian compatriots, including women, children and elderly men,” the interior ministry said in a statement.
The ministry blamed the attack on “enemies of Afghanistan’s people”, a phrase often used by officials to refer to the Taliban.
Some 28 Afghan civilians have now been killed in three roadside bombings in the last four days.
The latest attack happened in Khoshamand district of Paktika province which borders Pakistan, where militants have hideouts in the lawless border regions.
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or home-made bombs are the weapon of choice for insurgents and are a frequent cause of death for civilians as well as foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say that last year 2,043 civilians died as a result of Taliban attacks and military operations targeting the militants.
The latest incident comes three days after nine civilians – six women, two men and a child – died in a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan as they travelled to a wedding on a road often used by foreign forces.
A day earlier another roadside bomb killed six people travelling in a minibus in the Sangin district of Helmand province in the troubled south.
In other unrest, officials said that 12 Afghan militants were killed when the bombs they were making exploded in northwest Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Six other people were injured in the explosion in Faryab province, which borders Turkmenistan.
Also on Tuesday, 13 militants died in fighting between two factions in southern Zabul province.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber was shot by police before detonating his explosives-laden vest Wednesday as he crossed from Pakistan at the border town of Spin Boldak in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
No one else was injured in the incident. A suicide bomber killed 17 people including a police commander at a public bath in Spin Boldak earlier this month in Afghanistan’s deadliest blast since October last year.
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