"In that branch, the puppet regime's military ... receives their salaries," said a Taliban spokesman, who acknowledged they conducted the attack.
With the explosions and gunfire, panicked customers, men and women like you and me tried to flee, many unsuccessfully. Their families are now left to bury them and to try to live without them, who were their loved ones and in many cases, their providers.
Other major Taliban attacks have taken place in the last month in Kandahar, Afghanistan's 2nd largest city and in Kabul, its capitol. The intent is to show Afghans that despite American and other troop presence, no place is safe. Of course American troops and "contractors" also continue their attacks, as do American drone bombings continue on Afghan villages.
As a side note, Kabul Bank is widely considered a bastion of corruption for the Karzai government kept in power by the U.S. Last year the bank nearly collapsed as millions of dollars are unaccounted for and loans to high level government officials and other key individuals may be noncollectable.
The International Monetary Fund, is highly critical of the Karzai government for not pursuing an extensive investigation and if appropriate, prosecution.
In the end it is the people of Afghanistan who are caught in the middle of the war and in the corruption. The sooner there can be a negotiated peace and a withdrawal of U.S. troops, the better.
This is a matter for U.N. sanctioned troops to oversee and for the Afghan people themselves to reject the Taliban if they choose to do so and to put in place their own government, accountable to them. The Russians and now the Americans as foreign occupiers have only compounded their misery.
Dick
For more details of the attack, please see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38533837/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
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