Insurgents Kill 46 Afghans in Drive-bys and Bombings Making Today The Deadliest Day For Afghan Civil - Polidicks

[QUOTE=NY Times]KABUL, Afghanistan — Bombings and shootings took the lives of at least 43 Afghans on Tuesday in the deadliest day for civilians this year as insurgents struck while people were preparing for the Muslim holiday that ends the month of Ramadan. Related The worst death toll came in the southwestern province of Nimruz, where suicide bombers struck the provincial capital, Zaranj, as throngs of people were shopping for the Id al-Fitr holiday this weekend. The bombings killed at least 29 people and wounded 57, said Gen. Mohammed Musa Rasuli, the provincial police chief. In Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan, a remotely detonated bomb on a motorcycle exploded in a bazaar just after the evening prayer that breaks the Ramadan fast, killing 10 people, said Sheikh Saadi, the district governor. The bombing occurred in Dasht-e-Archi, a district in the province’s west. And in Badakhshan Province, in the far northeast of the country, a district governor and three policemen were killed in a Taliban ambush as they were driving through a remote area, said Abdul Rasul Rasekh, a spokesman for the provincial governor. President Hamid Karzai, who was traveling in Saudi Arabia, strongly condemned the attacks in a statement that said, “The terrorists are so desperate and abject that they kill our innocent Muslims in the holy month of Ramadan.” The attack in the small city of Zaranj was startling for the planning on the part of the insurgents, who carried out considerable damage despite being largely thwarted by the police. Eleven attackers appear to have converged on the city in the past several days, taking up positions in safe houses, police and provincial officials said. The first inkling of trouble came on Monday night when police officers, acting on a tip, found two potential suicide bombers in a safe house with a large amount of explosives and weapons. They killed the two men, and on Tuesday they caught three more suspects in the plot and took them into custody. But just a few hours later, at 3 p.m., explosions began in multiple places, General Rasuli said. The first two bombs, one near the governor’s office and the other targeting a police car, did little damage but “created panic in the town as people rushed toward the provincial hospital to see if any of their relatives had been hurt,” General Rasuli said. As people gathered in front of the hospital, just across from a crowded market, another bomber struck, and that explosion caused the majority of the casualties, the general said. He added that three other bombers had been shot elsewhere in the city. The identities and motives of the bombers were not immediately clear, and the Taliban did not claim responsibility. Nimruz is relatively quiet for a province in the south of Afghanistan and has not seen the insurgent activity common to neighboring areas. Abdul Khalil, a doctor at the public hospital, had gone to his private practice for the afternoon when he heard the bombs going off. “I heard the provincial hospital was calling on the people and on private hospitals to help them with blood donations,” he said by cellphone as he rushed back to help his colleagues. Another witness, Mohammed Akbar Sharifi, the head of the provincial agriculture department, spoke by cellphone from the hospital where he had taken his wounded nephew. “I heard three loud explosions followed by gunfire,” he said. “The city has been locked down.” Just before hanging up, he could be heard saying: “Hello, Doctor, this is my nephew. Please help him.” The doctor’s reply was captured as well: “We have so many in a critical situation, and there are many more in bad shape. We are helping them. We will come to you, too.”[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/world/asia/suicide-attackers-kill-at-least-29-in-afghan-bazaar.html[/url]

Holy shit.

Stating the obvious, but they are not Muslim in any way if they're killing people who are preparing for the holy month.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;37246374]Stating the obvious, but they are not Muslim in any way if they're killing people who are preparing for the holy month.[/QUOTE] According to the insurgents any Muslim that doesn't follow the exact dogma that they do isn't a Muslim at all. But a 'true' Muslim isn't supposed to kill anyone, regardless of faith. Religious tolerance is a big part of the Quran that extremists overlook in order to promote their own agenda, unfortunately.

the last week and a half has been filled with green on blues, now this. interesting

[QUOTE=ewitwins;37246374]Stating the obvious, but they are not Muslim in any way if they're killing people who are preparing for the holy month.[/QUOTE] the only religion that can claim to be adhering to their dogma is probably the Hasidim. unless they are in Israel, cuz that doesn't make any sense.

[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/3-grenades-thrown-into-mosque-compound-in-eastern-afghanistan-wound-9-worshippers/2012/08/15/50f11ed6-e69a-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html[/url] In other news, three grenades were thrown into a mosque full of Muslims during morning prayer in the eastern part of the country Wednesday morning, killing 9 of them. This brings the number of Afghans killed by insurgents killed in the past 48 hours to 55.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;37246374]Stating the obvious, but they are not Muslim in any way if they're killing people who are preparing for the holy month.[/QUOTE] I'm usually the one balking at the idea that the only thing that determines if someone is a practitioner of a religion is that they claim to be, as has been said on this forum. But I think they can be counted as Muslims.

Lets just cut out the middleman and say they are Muslims; but they aren't very good at being Muslims.

I prefer to just call them extremists to differentiate them from any group regardless of what they claim to be.

Shit seems to be getting worse over there, I feel bad for them, must be hell having to look over your shoulder every second just to make sure some asshole isn't about to mow you down.

theres gotta be some planned offensive going on

[QUOTE=W0w00t;37246998]theres gotta be some planned offensive going on[/QUOTE] That's for damned sure, whole country is going to hell in a handbasket.

tempted to somehow get someone to post this to Fox Nation and watch as people's heads explode trying to sort the situation out within their narrow-minded Islamophobic social agenda. "so there are Muslim terrorists killing people" "but the people they are killing are Muslim" "and all Muslims are terrorists" "so they're terrorizing terrorists" "so we like them" "but they're Muslims" "and they're terrorists" "so are they Muslim terrorists that we support?" "no, we could never support either of those things" "but they're killing Muslim 'terrorists'" " :suicide: " THE NATION FINDS THIS POST: OH MY GOD THERE'S BLOOD COMING OUT OF MY EARS

[QUOTE=joes33431;37247491]tempted to somehow get someone to post this to Fox Nation and watch as people's heads explode trying to sort the situation out within their narrow-minded Islamophobic social agenda. "so there are Muslim terrorists killing people" "but the people they are killing are Muslim" "and all Muslims are terrorists" "so they're terrorizing terrorists" "so we like them" "but they're Muslims" "and they're terrorists" "so are they Muslim terrorists that we support?" "no, we could never support either of those things" "but they're killing Muslim 'terrorists'" " :suicide: " THE NATION FINDS THIS POST: OH MY GOD THERE'S BLOOD COMING OUT OF MY EARS[/QUOTE] Only problem is, Fox Nation is like Wheatley dumb. If you present a fallacy like that, they'll just conclude that everyone who's not a Conservative American is at fault.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;37246494][url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/3-grenades-thrown-into-mosque-compound-in-eastern-afghanistan-wound-9-worshippers/2012/08/15/50f11ed6-e69a-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html[/url] In other news, three grenades were thrown into a mosque full of Muslims during morning prayer in the eastern part of the country Wednesday morning, killing 9 of them. This brings the number of Afghans killed by insurgents killed in the past 48 hours to 55.[/QUOTE] Surely none of the Afghans still believe these guys are Muslims? They've created their own agenda - can't really call it a religion - and they don't give a shit about Islam anymore, not in the usual sense of the religion. It doesn't get much lower than killing people during Salah.

I love how the Taliban are saying its not them. lol bullshit.

[QUOTE=Jetblack357;37247078]That's for damned sure, whole country is going to hell in a handbasket.[/QUOTE] What sick bastard rated this post funny?

Huh, my Uncle is working in the FOB at Kunduz. He must have heard the explosion, or heard of it.

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;37264371]Huh, my Uncle is working in the FOB at Kunduz. He must have heard the explosion, or heard of it.[/QUOTE] I hope that he is okay. No news is good news, right?