Afghanistan Suicide Bombers Attack Kabul Police Station

KABUL, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Several suicide bombers attacked a police station in the west of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, a police source said.

"At least four suicide bombers carried out an attack on a police station," the source said, adding that one bomber detonated his explosives. Police fought the others, who were armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, the source said.

"There were gunfights in Police District Five. There were no casualties. Now everything is under control and we are investigating the case," said Mohammad Zahir, head of the criminal investigation department for Kabul police.

Earlier, a Reuters witness heard gunfire and at least two
explosions.

The Taliban generally target military personnel or foreigners, such as in the attack on a convoy of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) vehicles in late October, which killed 13. That attack was also in the west of
the city, an area which does not have a high concentration of foreign residents.

A huge suicide bomb killed 80 people at a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Kabul last week, an attack the Taliban condemned.

(Reporting by Hamid Shalizi and Mirwais Harooni; Writing by
Daniel Magnowski; Editing by Matthew Jones)

Comments

[KIVPossum]

07:57 AM on 12/17/2011

Ten years and a zillion dollars and the Taliban is still running the show. With the addition of US drone attacks, I doubt the people are one bit better off than they were the day we attacked them

[J P McMahon]

09:35 AM on 12/17/2011

Possum, Military entities don't launch suicide attacks because they are "running the show". The Japanese didn't start launching Kamikaze attacks because they were winning the war. It is a sign of utter desperation by the Taliban. If they could launch coordinated ground attacks using infantry tactics, they would, as they did earlier in the war. It's just that those pesky drones keep getting in the way. I don't remember making the people of Afghanistan's life better as an objective when we went in there in November of 2011. But when you consider the psychopathic manner by which the Taliban ruled the country before then, it is hard to argue that things will be better off for the people of this benighted country if we leave.

[NevaforLeadership]

11:16 AM on 12/17/2011

Ask the women whether they are better off.

[tnanimation]

04:02 AM on 12/17/2011

It is my sincere hope that U.S. and other forces leave this shambles of a country very soon. There is no hope that Afghanistan will ever have even the slightest vestige of a democracy. It is barely even a cohesive 'country'.

[tallen]

05:52 PM on 12/16/2011

In other Taliban news:

Taliban cut nursing woman’s breast, asked others to eat pieces: UN-backed report

Press Trust of India
Fri Dec 16

Islamabad : Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of a woman who was breastfeeding her child and asked other women to eat the pieces...
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/888403/

[Terror Palooza]

04:37 PM on 12/16/2011

There have now been 528 terror attacks in 2011, leaving 3,917 dead and 8,264 wounded. (Stats available @TerrorPalooza.)

[Red45]

04:30 PM on 12/16/2011

"There were gunfights in Police District Five. There were no casualties." What? No casualties? Not even the suicide bombers died?

[NevaforLeadership]

03:44 PM on 12/16/2011

Christopher Hitchens, we need you.