Taliban Keep the Blood Flowing, Attack Mosque With Suicide Bomber, Six Killed

Afghan investigation members, right, take notes, as a man carries belongings at the scene of a suicide attack. — Photo by AP

The Taliban have fully transitioned into the mode of shedding Afghan civilian blood when today, they attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan with a suicide bomber whose charges ended up killing six people.

From the story at DAWN:

A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six people including a district police chief, a government official said.

The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the Qazi Abad area of the eastern province of Kunar, which borders Pakistan, said provincial governor Fazullulah Wahidi.

“The attacker detonated his explosives in the mosque, killing the district police chief, an intelligence officer, two police and two civilians,” the governor told AFP.

I talked about it yesterday how the Taliban have bought into fully the tactics of al Qaeda in Iraq where the al Qaeda gang had resorted to a total onslaught of intimidation on the populace of Iraq and mosque bombings were a hallmark of that strategy. Now, we all know this strategy backfired in Iraq but I think that al Qaeda and the Taliban feel it is different in Afghanistan - the Afghan people haven't nearly the education level of the Iraqis and the Taliban probably feel that the reaction by the Afghans will be for security only which they will see that they can get by submission to the Taliban. The Iraqis, of course, got pissed off and listened to U.S. commanders and decided to fight back.

Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan


ASADABAD: A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six people including a district police chief, a government official said.

The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the Qazi Abad area of the eastern province of Kunar, which borders Pakistan, said provincial governor Fazullulah Wahidi.

“The attacker detonated his explosives in the mosque, killing the district police chief, an intelligence officer, two police and two civilians,” the governor told AFP.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Kunar has been a flashpoint in the Taliban’s 10-year insurgency against the Western-backed government and 140,000 US-led foreign troops.

The attack came three days after coordinated attacks on Shia Muslims in the capital Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif killed at least 59 people in an unprecedented assault on the holy day of Ashura.