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Indian embassy in Afghan capital attacked again
Thu Oct 8, 2009 10:12pm EDT
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KABUL (Reuters) - A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding 76, in the second big attack on the embassy which renewed focus on regional security and Pakistan.
The Taliban, toppled as Afghanistan's rulers in 2001 following a U.S.-led invasion, claimed responsibility for the latest blast.
After an attack on the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital last year killed 58 people, India said Pakistan's military spy agency, the ISI, was behind most attacks on Indians in Afghanistan as a way of undermining Indian influence.
While New Delhi has been not yet pointed any finger of blame, links will inevitably be drawn to Pakistan.
Pakistan has long regarded Afghanistan as a fall-back position in the event of war with India and fears being squeezed between India on its eastern border and a hostile Afghanistan, backed by India, on a western boundary Kabul does not recognize.
New Delhi seeks to retain influence in Afghanistan to deter anti-India militant training camps there it accuses Pakistan of backing and to control any possibility of an Islamic surge in a region with traditional ties to Islamabad.
This year has been the deadliest of the eight-year-old war for foreign troops in the country, and the rise in casualties is contributing to a decline in U.S. public support for the war.
To prevail in the counterinsurgency fight, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has asked for a minimum 40,000 more troops, two sources told Reuters in Washington.
The sources said McChrystal gave President Barack Obama two other options: sending an even larger number of troops, and the "high-risk" road of sending no additional troops.
Washington is embroiled in a heated debate over whether to boost the size of its force in Afghanistan to try to put down the Taliban insurgency or to scale back the U.S. mission and focus on a more modest goal of striking at al Qaeda cells.
TROUBLE IN KABUL
Thursday's blast tore through a market building across the street from the heavily fortified Indian embassy compound, leaving rubble and debris strewn across the road, where the Afghan Interior Ministry is also located.
India said that all its embassy staff were safe.
Fifteen civilians and two policemen were killed in the attack, the Interior Ministry said. A further 76 people, including 63 civilians and 13 policemen were wounded, it said.
"I believe the suicide bomb was directed against the embassy because the suicide bomber came up to the outside perimeter wall of the embassy with a car loaded with explosives obviously with the aim of targeting the embassy," Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told reporters in New Delhi. Continued...
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