K Seeker wrote:
> Indians are the enemies of the Taliban because the Indians helped
> "Northern Alliance" fight the Taliban.
Poor Taliban. Nobody gives them a break. They are simply misunderstood.
>
> Even Hindu Shastra says that a Shatru's (enemies) mittr (friend) is an
> enemy. The Taliban are acting out of this Hindu principle still part of
> the Afghanistan tribal culture which predates Islam.
It's too bad they are not aware of this.
>
> "Mirza Ghalib" <mghalib01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> How much cooperation they had from the Afghan police
>> guarding the mission? Who can guess.
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>> DEFENCE ATTACHE KILLED IN KABUL MISSION BLAST
>> 7 Jul 2008, 1600 hrs IST,PTI
>> Times of India, July 7
>>
>> Afghan police officers stand guard at the entrance of the Indian
>> embassy in Kabul. (AP Photo)
>> More Pictures
>> KABUL: Terrorists rammed an explosives-laden car into the heavily
>> fortified Indian embassy's gates in the Afghanistan capital on Monday,
>> killing at least 41 people, including four Indian nationals, among
>> them a senior diplomat and defence attache. ( Watch )
>>
>> Defence Attache Brigadier R D Mehta and Counsellor Venkateswara Rao
>> were killed when the suicide bomber targeted the embassy during the
>> morning rush hour, Indian ambassador Jayant Prasad, who escaped unhurt
>> in the bombing, said. ( Watch )
>>
>> Rao's body was flung over the roof by the impact of the explosion that
>> blew off the embassy's gates and outer structure and damaged buildings
>> inside the compound. Two Indian embassy vehicles were also damaged, an
>> official said, adding over 140 people were injured in the blast.
>>
>> The other two Indians killed in the attack were identified as ITBP
>> personnel Ajai Pathania and Roop Singh.
>>
>> Wounded people lay on the road wailing for help amid blood and severed
>> limbs after the blast as a cloud of dust and smoke billowed from the
>> site.
>>
>> A fifth deceased employee of the Indian Embassy Niamutullah, was a
>> local Afghan, officials, said adding three Indians were also injured
>> in the blast. Among the dead were seven Afghan guards deployed at the
>> mission.
>>
>> India said it is ru****ng a high-level team, headed by Nalin Surie,
>> Secretary (West) to Kabul to *****s the "emergency" situation there,
>> External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in New Delhi.
>>
>> Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta visited the embassy soon
>> after the attack suspected to be carried out by the Taliban.
>>
>> Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Nikzad said the blast killed 41
>> people. US-led coalition forces cordoned off the site after the
>> explosion.
>>
>> Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed the "enemies" of the strong
>> friend****p between Afghanistan and India for the attack but did not
>> name any person or group.
>>
>> "The president strongly condemned the terrorist attack against the
>> Indian embassy in Kabul and considers it the work of enemies of
>> Afghanistan-India friend****p," a statement from his office said.
>>
>> No group has taken responsibility for the attack carried out with an
>> explosive-packed Toyoto Corolla driven by the suicide bomber who also
>> blew himself up as he rammed the vehicle into the embassy, near the
>> Interior Ministry.
>>
>> Some witnesses said that the bomber was trying to target two
>> diplomatic vehicles as they were entering the embassy premises.
>>
>> It is the first major attack on an Indian mission abroad and the
>> deadliest suicide bombing in Kabul since the Taliban were ousted by US-
>> led NATO forces in late 2001.
>>
>> People queuing up for visa at the Indian embassy, shoppers at a nearby
>> market and security personnel bore the brunt of the blast.
>>
>> New Delhi strongly condemned the terror attack and said that such
>> "cowardly" acts would not deter it from fulfilling commitments to the
>> government and people of Afghanistan.
>>
>> "We are in touch with the Ambassador who is supervising arrangements
>> for medical assistance," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej
>> Sarna said in a statement in New Delhi.
>>
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