This Reuters article is a veiled ad for keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but it is likely that this was a Sunni jihad attack against Shi’ites. The Sunni-Shi’ite jihad was going on before we got there, and will continue after we leave, even if that is in three hundred years.
“Bombings on two transport buses kill 12 Afghans in Kabul,” Reuters, June 2, 2021:
Two separate bomb blasts on two public transport buses killed at least 12 civilians in the Afghan capital Kabul, security officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of such attacks in recent weeks as foreign forces withdraw.
Both attacks took place on Tuesday evening in western parts of the capital that are home to many from the country’s Shia community, a religious minority in Afghanistan targeted in the past by groups such as Islamic State, the officials said.
Ferdaws Faramarz, Kabul police spokesman, said both buses were carrying passengers when the explosion occurred that killed at least 12 and wounded 10 more. The police launched an investigation, he said.
Roadside bombs, small magnetic bombs attached under vehicles, and other attacks have targeted members of security forces, judges, government officials, civil society activists and journalists in recent months in Afghanistan.
No group claimed responsibility for the twin bombings.
The government usually blames the Taliban for such attacks but the insurgent group denies involvement.
Violence has sharply increased since Washington announced plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11….
Walter Sieruk says
This is tragic. More Muslim murderous jihad attacks even against Muslim who believe in the different form of Islam .This is delusion ,madness and evil.
gregbeetham says
Stupid should hurt, anyone with sense would realize that murdering people in the name of their God because they think he ordered them to do it means they have been deceived by Satan and actually worship Satan.
Infidel says
Like RS noted at the beginning, this is a veiled ad for keeping our troops there forever. Except that the only difference is that instead of sunnis attacking shi’a, they’ll attack our troops there. Since we can’t do what Genghiz Khan did in the 13th century, we have no business staying there
One thing I do congratulate Biden for is not reversing this policy of Trump, other than delaying it to a completely inappropriate date – 9/11/2021. Given his instincts to just go along w/ majority senate opinion, I’d have thought that he’d have gone w/ neocon opinion on both sides of the aisle on this one
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: 12 civilians murdered in bomb blasts on buses in Shi’a area
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More Muslim-on-Muslim savagery.