Attackers in Army Uniforms Make Deadly Assault on Afghan Bank

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Source: The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghan soldiers and police officers lined up on Saturday to get their monthly salaries at a bank in downtown Jalalabad, they became targets for seven heavily armed attackers in Army uniforms who had joined them, Afghan officials said.

In a chaotic scene, the attackers, all wearing explosive vests, started a gun battle, and several rushed into the bank, starting a siege there. The fighting ended three hours later, leaving 18 people dead and about 70 wounded, the governor of Nangarhar Province said. The main hospital, overwhelmed, put out a radio call for all doctors in the area to report to the emergency room, and officials imposed a curfew across Jalalabad, which is Nangarhar’s capital and the biggest city in eastern Afghanistan.

“There were seven suicide bombers dressed in A.N.A. uniform,” said the governor, Gul Agha Shirzai. “Five of the bombers were killed in the firefight with security forces, and two blew themselves up.”

This was the fourth carefully planned suicide attack in just a little over three weeks and the third to hit a major Afghan city. The other two were in a supermarket frequented by foreigners in Kabul on Jan. 28, and in Kandahar on Feb. 12. Another suicide attack occurred on the edge of the capital of Khost Province. In all, 57 people have been killed in the attacks.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/asia/20afghanistan.html

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1. ...but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

We need to send MORE troops!

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6. +100

When does that start happening here?

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2. Gunmen storm Afghan bank

Source: FT

Gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a bank in eastern Afghanistan, killing dozens of people in the latest in a spate of attacks on high-profile urban targets.

A senior police officer was among the more than 70 people wounded in the assault on a branch of Kabul Bank, Afghanistan’s biggest private lender, in the eastern city of Jalalabad, an intelligence source said.

Dr Saif Rahman, the head of the health department in Nangahar province, of which Jalababad is the capital, said at least 40 people had been killed in the attack and 73 wounded, many of them critically.

“We fear that the death toll will go up,” he told the Financial Times.

Read more: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1745ec92-3c29-11e0-b073-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=f39ffd26-4bb2-11da-997b-0000779e2340.html

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Bank target. That's weird. Did they steal the money or just blow everyone up? Terrible either way.

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4. Well, it let me read it all once, so I suppose they are playing with cookies,

or allowing it when you come from google, is what it looks like.

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5. Which Army? n/t