Taliban Militants Attack Afghan Police Compound

Taliban Militants Attack Afghan Police Compound

KABUL — Three Taliban suicide bombers attacked a police headquarters in the eastern part of Kabul province early Friday, police said.

“At first, one of the attackers detonated his explosives-laden car at the gate of police compound in Saroubi district,” said Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for Interior Ministry.

“The two others, wearing women’s clothes, opened fire at the police on guard,” Sediqqi said, adding that three policemen were injured in the attack in Saroubi district, east of the capital Kabul.

All the attackers were gunned down, the spokesman said.

A security official said one policeman was killed and two wounded in the attack.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The insurgents’ spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said “several police” were killed.

Located on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway, security in the district has worsened in the past two years.

On Wednesday, militants fired at an Afghan presidential candidates’ motorcade in the same district.

Photo via Wikimedia commons

Advertising

Start your day with National Memo Newsletter

Know first.

The opinions that matter. Delivered to your inbox every morning

Lin Wood, left, and Sidney Powell.

Lin Wood, left, and Sidney Powell.

Photo, left, by Gage Skidmore (CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0). Photo, right, screenshot from C-SPAN.

Do you remember Lin Wood, the Trump attorney who in December, 2020, accused Chief Justice John Roberts of raping and murdering children? How about this one: the very same Lin Wood accused Roberts of being responsible for the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in his sleep during a trip to a luxury hunting resort in Texas, a trip, incidentally, Roberts did not make with Scalia and his billionaire buddies.

Keep reading...Show less
No, Biden Isn't Terribly Unpopular (And He Polls Better Than Trump)

Time was when getting caught in a malicious lie about a rival would have ended an American politician’s career. We no longer live that way. Just the other day, Donald Trump unleashed a series of falsehoods attacking President Biden that would have shamed a carnival barker.

Keep reading...Show less
{{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}