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As discussed in part earlier on this site, Afghanistan and neighbor Pakistan are a current hotbed for violence and terrorist activity. This morning a vehicle driven suicide bomb in the Afghan capital of Kabul is responsible for the deaths of no less than 40 people and injured roughly 140 more. The explosion could be heard from miles away. While first thought to have been aimed at the Headquarters of the Interior Ministry, it has since been decided that an Indian diplomatic mission outside of the Indian Embassy was the target.
With Afghan and NATO troops battling a resurgent Taliban, the suicide attack at the embassy was the second major militant-led strike against a government target in the center of the Afghan capital this year. In April, an assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a military parade killed three people, including a 10-year old boy. Karzai escaped unharmed.
Shortly after the attack, several military patrols arrived in the area to help secure the scene. A contingent of American soldiers among the military patrols opened fire on a car as it approached the embassy, wounding a woman and two men inside the vehicle.
This comes off the heels of an explosion that took place in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, Sunday killing 21, including 16 local policemen. That explosion took place outside of a police station, and not far from the Red Mosque, which one year ago was the target of an army operation (theirs, not ours). It’s unclear whether the bombing is related to that event.
Things are not all quiet on the Middle Eastern front, how this will affect our military operations remains to be seen.
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