عاشورا خونین ایران Bloody Ashura in Iran
Two Afghanistan bombings aimed at Shiites kill at least 60+ people
A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people outside a Kabul shrine and injured 134, and a bicycle bomb detonated near a Shiite gathering in Mazar-i-Sharif, killing at least four and hurting 16.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Islamabad,—
Bomb blasts targeting Shiite Muslim gatherings Tuesday in two Afghan cities killed at least 59 people and injured 150, a rare outbreak of sectarian violence in a country racked by 10 years of war with Taliban insurgents.
A noontime blast in Kabul, the capital, involved a suicide bomber hidden among a throng of Shiite worshipers outside the Abul Fazal Abbas shrine, said Gen. Mohammed Zahir, head of criminal investigations for the Kabul police. That attack killed at least 55 people and injured 134, the Interior Ministry said.
At about the same time in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a bomb on a bicycle detonated near a gathering of Shiites, killing at least four people and injuring 16, provincial and Interior Ministry officials said.
The bomb exploded as a Shiite procession was heading toward a city shrine, said Gen. Abdul Taj, a top police official in Balkh province, where Mazar-i-Sharif is located. Another nearby bomb probably meant for the procession was found and defused, Taj said.
The attacks occurred on the Shiite holy day of Ashura, which commemorates the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad.
Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the attacks marked "the first time that on such an important religious day in Afghanistan, terrorism of that horrible nature is taking place."
Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, condemned the violence and blamed Afghan insurgents for the attacks. "This insurgency, which wraps itself in a false veil of Islam, must know that killing innocent pilgrims will spell their own demise," Allen said in a prepared statement.
The Afghan Interior Ministry also accused Afghan Taliban insurgents of being behind the attacks.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied that the Afghan insurgent group was involved and instead accused U.S.-led forces of carrying out such violence "to provide grounds for their presence in Afghanistan, and to pit [Afghans] against each other."
Witnesses outside the shrine in Kabul said corpses \and severed limbs were strewn all over the street. A steady stream of ambulances and police cars rushed the injured to nearby hospitals. Many of the victims were women and children. Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi, Kabul's police chief, said the bomber entered the city with a procession of pilgrims from the nearby province of Lowgar.
It was Kabul's deadliest attack since a suicide car bomber killed more than 60 people outside the Indian Embassy in July 2008.
"I was about to go to the shrine, but then I heard a big explosion about 10 meters away," said Allah Mohammad, 25. "As people rushed, I fell down, and after a few minutes stood up again to look for two of my friends who were with me. I saw more than 25 dead bodies on the ground. Some children were also killed and wounded. It was a very bad situation."
Afghanistan's Muslim population is majority Sunni, but sectarian violence is rare. Such attacks are much more common in neighboring Pakistan, where Sunni extremist organizations routinely carry out terror strikes against Shiites, whom they regard as heretics.
Shiites make up about 15% of Afghanistan's population.
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@A416G dont believe everything u read. every kamp in the old days wrote her/his won history books. just like the israeli wrote wrote what happend in palestine 60 years ago. try to hold back the insults of (muslim) people who lived 1500 years ago. u werent there, so u cant be 100 % sure of what happend. dont just blindly follow the bad manners of other shia by thinking to insult. let allah be the right judge, not your history book or weird imams.
redouanetime 3 weeks ago
America trying to make sunnis and shias start fighting.
riddler3121 1 month ago
Oh and also fuck the Saudi government and the Pakistani government, they don't do shit for Palestinians and are trying to uproot Syria. Zionist ass kissing Arab leaders are the scum of the Earth.
A416G 1 month ago
Fuck Salafis and Wahhabis, these are the people who preach that Yazeed went to Heaven even though he would get intoxicated and have sex with monkeys (I'm not lying).
A416G 1 month ago
@soni496 ameen!
uklondon33 1 month ago
this is so sad. God give strength and saber to all these afghans and to all these afghan people who their families and loved ones got murdered in this horrible way! khuda lanat kona dushmane islama! God will punish those who took part in killing these innocent people!
lanat ba yazeed! lanat on the enemies of islam! lanat on the enemies of Ahlulbayt!! ameen.
uklondon33 1 month ago
Every land is Karbala
Everyday is Ashura
Assalaamu 'allaykum ahlad-diyaari minal Mu' -mineea wal-Muslimeena wa innaaa in shaa'Allahu bikum laahiqun. Nas- 'alullaaha lanaa wa lakum- 'aafiyah.
Tekbir, Allahu Akbar!
Ameen!
NWONoWorldOrderNWO 1 month ago
@ZackFairBMT
who is osama ? an arab natinlist
who is mulla umer taliban cheif he is afgahan ??
majority of them r arab uzbak tajik, ,etc
ya m not naroow midned liek u, , m accpting the reality dat soem of our balcksheep r also invlived but most of them belonging from our tribal pashtoon as m also part of that tribal area
i knwo myself they r getting weapons from afgahnsiatn they can cross border twcely a day
n then they rdoing this shit not only in afgahnsiatn also in pak
orakzai110 1 month ago
@orakzai110 wow, you are so stupid,its you pakistanis that are infecting our countries,almost every taliban is pakistani- im not trying to say that every paki is like this but the majority in afghanistan is,dont be ignorant.
ZackFairBMT 1 month ago
@dz23151 they are not muslims! they are pakistani dongs, a muslim would not do this.
ZackFairBMT 1 month ago