Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Multiple Deadly Explosions Targeting Medics and Journalists in Kabul

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ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly blasts that rocked Kabul this week and left 20 dead and another 70 or wounded.

Among the victims were journalists and medics.

And this isn’t the first time the terror group has purposely hit reporters and medical professionals. In April, ISIS claimed responsibility for attacks that left dozens dead, also in Kabul — and that included numerous journalists.

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Here’s a video from the April incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5yG0_X0Vs

More on the most recent attack from the Daily Caller:

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for two bombs that exploded in a heavily Shiite neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan, and left at least 20 dead and 70 others wounded Wednesday.

The attacks, apparently targeting emergency services and journalists, occurred in Dasht-e-Barchi, a neighborhood home to the Shiite Muslim Hazara ethnic minority, which has been targeted repeatedly in the past by ISIS, Reuters reported.

The first blast came when a suicide bomber detonated inside a wrestling training center and the second came moments after from a nearby car bomb.

In the first attack, the suicide bomber fatally shot a guard of the gym where spectators were watching a wrestling match, and then proceeded to blow himself up, officials told The Washington Post.

The second attack hit and killed a reporter and a cameraman from a local news station who had just arrived to do a live report from the scene, according to the report, and four other crew members from the station, Tolo News, were also injured.

These attacks are among a string of other deadly strikes in the region this year, and it’s proving to be one of the deadliest years since 2009 for noncombatants in Afghanistan, according to a U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) report.

Between Jan. 1 and June 30 about 1,700 noncombatants have been killed in Afghanistan.

This twin attack mirrors one from April, when at least nine journalists died from explosions at a high security zone in Kabul.

The Islamic State also claimed responsibility for those attacks.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

And the first Muslim democrat president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch

And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !

Now ISIS and other jihadi groups have enough jihadis recruits in America just like in EU.

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
5 years ago

Trying to return humanity to the pre-scientific dark ages, no medical care, just suffer and die.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

They come to the U.S. diseased. Now we have Hansen’s Clinics all over to help them with their leprosy and other diseases we eradicated decades if not centuries ago.

Jim
Jim
5 years ago

This is an old tactic. I remember it being used in the 1970’s.
Journalist, too, killed. Like they say, a fanatic is someone who doesn’t know who their friends are.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Lefty journalists and Anti-Semitic doctors without borders? Should I be concerned about this?

Vlad
Vlad
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Nah, nor am I

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Islam has ruined all of Asia.

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

…and working on destroying the rest!

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
5 years ago

Targeting journalists? Don’t the muzzies realize that the journalists are on their side? The left will sooner or later figure out that even though they have helped the spread of islam, they, too, will fall prey to it. Frog, meet scorpion!

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