{"id":28897,"date":"2012-02-27T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28897"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:30:51","slug":"taliban-bomb-afghans-for-koran-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28897","title":{"rendered":"Taliban bomb Afghans for Koran burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I neglected the rest of you for a while this afternoon, but TopGoz was buying my lunch, so he took priority over the rest of you for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I had a WTF? moment when I read that the Taliban bombed some Afghans in retaliation for the Koran burnings, according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/taliban-looks-for-gain-in-continuing-afghanistan-violence-1.170032\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> report;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A suicide car bombing killed nine people and injured a dozen outside a military airfield in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the latest spasm of violence resulting from the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack at Forward Operating Base Fenty in Jalalabad. The victims were Afghan civilians and security personnel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that makes complete sense to me, I mean I&#8217;m glad that it was some Afghans instead of Americans for a change, but, how seriously do the Taliban hate the people they seek to rule if they&#8217;re just making people &#8216;splode for the sake of &#8216;splodin&#8217; people?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/02\/27\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-burned-qurans\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">CNN reports<\/a> that Hamid Karzai finally found something that the Taliban has done worthy of his condemnation;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned a suicide bombing Monday at a military airfield, the latest incident in a spike in violence following the burning of Qurans by NATO troops last week.<\/p>\n<p>At least nine people were killed and 12 wounded in the early-morning explosion near the front gate of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force base at Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, according to Gen. Abdulla Hazim Stanikzai, the provincial police chief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Obama apologizes for Quran burning<br \/>\nTaliban poisoning NATO food?<br \/>\nClinton backs Obama&#8217;s Quran apology<br \/>\nSensitivity training after Quran burning<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on the bombing Monday, Karzai condemned the &#8220;inhuman and un-Islamic&#8221; act and urged that &#8220;the ruthless enemy would earn nothing but growing public hatred and punishment before Allah, the Almighty.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for him&#8230;but he&#8217;s been enabling the Taliban for years trying to protect their delicate sensibilities. But that sentiment prevails&#8230;the diplomats are worried that peace talks between the Afghans and the Taliban are being made &#8220;shaky&#8221; by the latest spurt of violence across the country. <\/p>\n<p>I have news for y&#8217;all, your precious peace talks were &#8220;shaky from the get-go because of who you were dealing with.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Taliban also claimed Monday to be behind the poisoning of food at a dining facility at Forward Operating Base Torkham, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It too was a retaliatory attack, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>ISAF confirmed that food at the base appeared to have been contaminated over the weekend, though it was unclear if it was deliberate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you mean to tell me that hiring local civilians to do your cooking is putting the troops in danger? Who saw that coming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I neglected the rest of you for a while this afternoon, but TopGoz was buying &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban bomb Afghans for Koran burning\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28897\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban bomb Afghans for Koran burning<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}