Afghan Intel update on Todays attack

July 7th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0

 

Today a Suicide bomber attacked the Indian Embassy killing 41 people and wounding 141.  This attack occurred at 0834 when a car filled with explosives drove into the gates of the Embassy and detonating.  A contact close to me said the carnage was horrible and that the death toll included many children that were out in mass around the adults waiting in line for their visa’s from the Embassy.  This is a typical cowardly attack by Taliban who were possibly trained through agents of Pakistan’s Inter-serivces Intelligence directorate.  Folks they are seeking to exploit the troubles Afghanistan is having on the border with Pakistan.

 

This isn’t the first attack against Indian interest but with the Paks overwhelmed with their own terrorist problem, they aren’t much help. There are some serious things under foot out here and you should write to CNN and Fox and ask them to cover this situation more then the elections on the television. You are talking about a country with Nukes next door, who hate their neighbors on the other side of them who also have nukes. And no one is really worried about Iran getting Nukes or that would be a real issue in the elections. I mean, a real issue as in what will you do about it? Do you have enough stones to take out their program before they can make a bomb? I trust the Indians with the bomb, I don’t like it, but they are a calmer bunch then either the Paki’s or Iranians.

 

I started to post a piece from Stratfor.com but didn’t want to deal with the copyright issues. You can go read up on it after this.

Take care and more to come.

S/F

Taco

 

  1. 7 Responses to “Afghan Intel update on Todays attack”

  2. By chtrbx on Jul 7, 2008

    Good to hear from you Taco…been worried about you….

  3. By GunnNutt on Jul 7, 2008

    I’m afraid it’s going to take more than viewer complaints and Embassy bombings to get the MSM off the election coverage. That’s all they care about and think we need/want to hear about it as well.

    *sigh* We count on you, Taco for the REAL news.

  4. By Tankerbabe on Jul 7, 2008

    Most of all glad to know you are AOK.

    Taco ~ I’ve been jumping up and down for almost two years now TRYING to get someone - ANYONE - to write about Afghanistan. My lowly little blog will NEVER be enough to get the word out there. But…I ain’t giving up! No sir! Not as long as we have 1) our military personnel there and 2) the threat is still there.

    Thanks for your story.

    BE SAFE my friend!

  5. By Bridget on Jul 7, 2008

    Been seeing updates all day on UP wire…glad to hear from you!
    I agree with GunnNutt…the MSM has an agenda and Afganistan isn’t it right now…

  6. By "Ace" Troop Supporter on Jul 7, 2008

    Good to hear from you LTC Bell, I read the news, Take care this week, You are in my Thoughts.

  7. By Asupporter4ever on Jul 8, 2008

    Taco it’s good to hear from you and I am releived to know you are ok…I agree with everyone else…our news media wants to beat to death the election and it’s issues …while there are more important issues they should be covering like our men and women who are working their butts off for all of us back here including, sadly, the politicians and news broadcasters…Well we appreciate news from you about the reality of things good or bad it’s nice to know that someone is real…Thanks Taco…God Bless, stay safe and take care…

  8. By Helen on Jul 8, 2008

    Yes, it’s so nice to hear from you, LTC Bell. Just want to drop you a note so you know we are thinking of you ;-)

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