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Afghan bank in Jalalabad hit by suicide bomb attack

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Eighteen people have been killed and more than 70 wounded in an attack on a bank in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, according to the provincial governor.

Gul Agha Shirzay said suicide attackers armed with guns and grenades carried out the attack, according to AFP.

The Taliban say they carried out the assault on the Kabul Bank, targeting police and intelligence officers who had gone to collect their salaries.

Afghan security forces are frequently targets of attacks by the Taliban.

"Unfortunately 18 of our countrymen were martyred and more than 70 injured," said Mr Shirzay, governor of Nangarhar province.

Those wounded included Alishah Paktyamwal, the province's police chief, and his deputy.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack.

"People were there doing business deals and to receive their salaries. This attack once again showed the cruel actions of the terrorists who do not want the people of Afghanistan to live in peace," he said.


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what is the current statues of afghan..

what percentage of area is under full taliban control now ?

or are they just hiding in mountains doing suicide attacks ?
 
A new video of the attack in Jalalabad Bank was released by popular Tolo TV:

 
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One of the attackers was captured and in this video he says that he really enjoyed everytime he shot those people. they didnt have mercy on nobody, even there were kids and women among the dead. One of my friend's uncle was shot dead by these bloody taliban, he left 5 young kids behind.
 
A Taliban shooting at an Afghan bank that killed scores of civilians comes as the U.S. is negotiating with the group. Lloyd Grove talks to Afghan’s top media mogul about the brutality. Plus, watch the video.

Last Saturday, a gang of gunman marched into the Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan, and massacred up to 60 unarmed civilians in cold blood. Dozens more victims suffered grievous wounds. The brutal Feb. 19 attack was staged as workers were gathered in the bank to withdraw their pay.

The Taliban quickly and proudly claimed responsibility—although Pakistan’s dread-inducing Inter-Service Intelligence agency (a largely pro-Taliban, fanatic Islamic cabal known as the ISI) has also been implicated.

Extremely Graphic Video of the Kabul Bank Shooting (already posted by Ahmad above)

One of the gunmen, arrested by law enforcement authorities, was quoted as saying: “I shot numerous people. I was told people in gray are pagans and I was shooting them with joy.”

Tolo (for “dawn”) TV, the 24-hour television channel of Afghan media mogul Saad Mohseni, chairman of the Moby Media Group, obtained closed circuit security camera footage of the mayhem and this week put it on the air. Be warned: the video is horrific and sickening, showing a man with an automatic weapon indiscriminately shooting defenseless victims at close range.

“Although we realized that airing such footage would shock many, we felt compelled to go with it given the importance of bringing home the brutality of the Taliban,” Mohseni told The Daily Beast in an email. “The impact of the footage has been dramatic, with almost everyone condemning the massacre and the people behind this carnage—well, everyone except the Afghan government. The extraordinary thing has been the government's reluctance to name names such as the Taliban, the ISI and Pakistani government.”

Mohseni, a strong advocate of Western-style democracy in his hard-scrabble country of 28 million souls, continued: “Although they have demanded the death penalty for the perpetrator (captured on video), they are reluctant to address the more important questions: who do they represent, where are they trained, who funds them etc. The Afghan government is more intent on doing a deal with the Taliban and its Pakistani backers than addressing the fundamental question of what will transpire inside the country once the Taliban are in as a legitimate party. Self-preservation has once again taken priority over the longer term welfare of our beleaguered nation.”

Mohseni added that the attitude of official Washington has also been disappointing. “Some within the United States government (White House and State Department) have also shown a great deal of restraint when it comes to directly attacking the Taliban and ISI. This year, according to many in Washington, is the year of reconciliation with the Taliban. For most in the United States, it would be easier to just ‘market’ the Taliban as an Afghan phenomenon—totally false—and to declare that these barbarians represent the indigenous culture—which they do not.”

Surely, these terrible images will do nothing to advance the cause of reconciliation.

Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.

Taliban Attack Video Shows Danger with U.S. Negotiations - The Daily Beast
 
Very sorry to hear about this barbaric attack. This seems to be one of the worst attacks in South Asia since Mumbai 26/11. Are these humans or rabid animals? The video is truly horrific.

Ahmad, very sorry to hear about your friend's uncle ... I hope his family will find a way to survive.
 
Very sorry to hear about this barbaric attack. This seems to be one of the worst attacks in South Asia since Mumbai 26/11. Are these humans or rabid animals? The video is truly horrific.

Ahmad, very sorry to hear about your friend's uncle ... I hope his family will find a way to survive.

That above report is in Farsi and some of the people who was interviewd(including the attacker) speaks pashto so it is not possible for people to understand it. The captured attacker says that he shot dead alot of people in the bank and he did really enjoy it. These are sick b@stards, how can they enjoy shooting dead people.
 
When will such barbaric attacks stop in Afghanistan? I wanna see Afghanistan developing into a prosperous and peaceful country.

May the deceased Rest in Peace.
 
Children and women killed in bomb blast in East Afghanistan

Afghan police said the explosion occurred in the East of the country killed nine civilians and a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan are also casualties on the left.

Authorities say the vehicle (car) carries a number of civilians in an area called the "However" in Khost province, a roadside bomb has hit.

At least three women and four children are among the casualties of this explosion.

In Faryab province in northern Afghanistan as a suicide attack during a game of "goat drawing" has been done.

Interior Ministry (country) Afghanistan says the attack killed two people and twenty-three others were wounded were all civilians.

According to the Interior Ministry, one of those killed was a child.

Afghan civilian deaths in violence over recent weeks has increased sharply.

Recent suicide attacks in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in the East, killed about forty people and eighty others were wounded according to officials, most of them were civilians.

A day after tens of civilians in the province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, a suicide attack killed and injured.

With this, the Afghan government has reported that more than sixty "civilian" in NATO air strikes in Afghanistan have been killed in the East. NATO has not confirmed the report but said the investigation is about it.

According to statistics released by a human rights organization, last year two thousand and four hundred civilians were killed in unrest in Afghanistan.
 

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