KABUL, Afghanistan, June 1 - A suicide bomber detonated a powerful bomb during a mourning ceremony in a mosque in the southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing 19 people, among them the Kabul police chief, and wounding 52 others, the Interior Ministry said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the three and a half years since the Taliban were removed from power.
The interior minister, Ali Ahmed Jalali, said he believed that the two attacks were linked, and he blamed "enemies of Afghanistan." The bomber was a foreigner, he said, without elaborating.
"We label them as enemies of Islam because they are attacking Islam, attacking Muslims, attacking sacred sites of Islam," he said at a news conference in Kabul, the capital.
[enemies of islam eh? weren't the taliban rigid adherers to the letter of the law of islam?]
A Taliban spokesman, Abdul Latif Hakimi, claimed responsibility for the assassination of Mr. Fayaz, saying it was because of his support for the American military presence in Afghanistan and the government of President Hamid Karzai, The Associated Press reported. But the Taliban spokesman denied responsibility for Wednesday's blast.
--nytimes
violence is on the rise in iraq. violence is on the rise in afghanistan.
where is the success again?
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