Taliban claims car bomb attack near Spanish embassy in Kabul

Daily Mail ^ | 12-11-2015 | Reuters

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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul on Friday, and said fighting was still going on at the scene.

Gunfire was reported immediately following the explosion, in a heavily protected area of the capital close to many foreign embassies and government buildings. Officials said police were on the scene.

At least three insurgents appeared to be involved in the attack, a police official said.

A Taliban spokesman said the attack targeted "an invader's guest house".

At least seven people were brought to a hospital operated by the aid group Emergency, located around 700 metres from the Spanish embassy, according to a tweet from the organization.

[tcrlaf]

Just breaking, started within the hour. gunfire at the embassy was reported to be still underway, 15 minutes ago.

[dfwgator]

Taliban is in competition with ISIS, they have to ‘one up’ each other.

[tcrlaf]

Twitpic:

[tcrlaf]

TWITTER:

Sky News Newsdesk
Verified account
@SkyNewsBreak
20 minutes ago
Officials in Madrid and Afghanistan say the Spanish embassy in #Kabul is under attack

EMERGENCY ONG/Onlus
Verified account
‏@emergency_ong
1 hour ago
#Kabul Spanish Embassy under attack. Located at 700mt from our hospital. Seven afghan patients received as of now. #Afghanistan

[Genoa]

Taliban is in competition with ISIS, they have to ‘one up’ each other.

I read that ISIS has them on the run and is close to dominating Afghanistan. Hype or truth? Anybody know?

[butlerweave]

Obama’s plan to return Afghanistan to the stone age is coming together

[PghBaldy]

These are more of Obama’s partners for peace.

[Uncle Miltie]

There are about 3,000,000 (3M) Muslims in the U.S. Many hundreds of thousands of them completely reject America, its freedom and many want to kill you for them.

Here are their opinions:

Sharia in America: "51% of U.S. Muslims (1.5M) ... polled believe ... that they should have the choice of American or Sharia courts" (1)

Reject U.S. Law: 61%. Only "39% of (U.S. Muslims, ~1.2M) said that Muslims in the U.S. should be subject to American courts." (1) That means the other 61% (~1.8M) of U.S. Muslims believe they should not be subject to American courts.

Sharia Superiority: 33% of U.S. Muslims (~1M) believe that "If Sharia conflicts with the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights", then Sharia "should be considered supreme." (1)

Violence against First Amendment Rights: 29% (~900,000) U.S. Muslims agree that "violence against those who insult the prophet mohammed, the quran, or the Islamic faith is sometimes acceptable." (1)

Sharia by Jihad: 11% of U.S. Muslims (~330,000) believe that Sharia is "The Muslims god allah's Law that Muslims must follow and impose world-wide via Jihad" (1)

(1) https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/06/23/nationwide-poll-of-us-muslims-shows-thousands-support-shariah-jihad/

[fivecatsandadog]

Let’s send Obama over there on a one-way ticket for peace talks. And he can take the rap moose with him.

[dfwgator]

It starts to resemble the Monty Python, “Peoples’ Front of Judea vs the Judean Peoples’ Front” scene in “Life of Brian”.