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Taliban suicide bombers target Afghan capital kill 20, wound 57

Published: 11/02/2009 05:00

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In the latest wave of violence, the Taliban insurgents targeted several government buildings including the Justice Ministry Wednesday morning, killing 20 people and wounding 57 others, Minister for Interior Mohammad Hanif Atmar said.

Afghan medics carry a wounded man from the Justice Ministry after suicide bombers attacked the building in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on Feb. 11, 2009. A series of terrorism attacks targeting several government buildings Wednesday morning killed at least 19 people and wounded 54 others, according to Public Health Ministry spokesman Abdul Fahim. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Xinhua/Zabi Tamanna)

“As a result of terrorist attacks in Kabul today, 20 people were killed and 57 others sustained injuries, some of them in critical condition,” Atmar told journalists at a press conference here.

Seven out of those killed in the bloody are policemen while 29 more policemen are among the injured, he added.

The NATO-led peacekeeping International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a statement released here described the attacks as barbaric against the civilians and condemned it.

“This morning insurgents carried out a number of attacks in the city of Kabul targeting civilian establishments including the Ministries of Justice, Education, Finance and the Detention Center Headquarters,” the statement said.

General David D. McKiernan, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, offered his sincere condolences to the families of those killed, and sympathies for those injured by this callous and indiscriminate attack.

Meantime, a press release of Afghan Defense Ministry said that three suicide bombers were killed by detonating themselves while five more were shot dead by the personnel of the law enforcing agencies during the operation.

The attackers, according to militant’s mouthpiece Zabihullah Mujahid were 16, entered Kabul to target government buildings.

In talks with media through telephone from undisclosed locations, Mujahid claimed that militants carried out these attacks to punish Justice Ministry as the entity, according to him, has tortured Taliban fighters held in detention centers.

He also went on to say that militants would attack more government buildings.

It is the first time that the insurgents carry out simultaneous in a single day causing panic among the war-weary Afghans who have enormously suffered due to protracted wars over the past three decades.

In their new tactics, the militants almost at the same time targeted a detention center of the Justice Ministry in Khair Khanaarea and the building of the Justice Ministry located hundreds of yard away from the fortified Presidential Palace and close to Finance ministry and the country’s central Bank.

Taliban’s purported spokesman claimed that two suicide bombers entered the detention center of the Justice Ministry and after opening fire on the guards detonated themselves leaving eight people dead.

Similarly, four militants entered inside the building of the Justice Ministry and inflicting casualties on government employees.

Immediately, security forces cordoned off the building and began operation which lasted for two hours during which, according to Deputy to Interior Ministry Munir Mangal, four terrorists were killed.

One more suicide bomber, according to police was shot dead next to Education Ministry before he blows himself up.

Observers believed that today’s multiple attack is sign of Taliban insurgents’ ability to target anyone and anything whenever they want.

Taliban insurgents have carried out series of bombings in the capital city over the past couple of years but the bloody one are bombing the five-star Serena Hotel in the neighborhood of the fortified Presidential Palace, Indian embassy in front of Interior Ministry and today’s clash inside Justice Ministry.

Observers are of the view that Taliban-linked insurgency would further go up in 2009 as Afghans are going to hold the second Presidential elections since the collapse of Taliban regime eight years ago.

VietNamNet/Xinhuanet

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