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^ Yesterday christo-islamania attacked in China.



Today christo-islamania attacked an Indian Consulate in Afghanistan.



1. uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/23/uk-afghanistan-india-idUKKBN0E306C20140523

Militants attack Indian consulate in western Afghanistan

By Jalil Ahmad



HERAT Afghanistan Fri May 23, 2014 9:15am BST



[img caption:] Afghan security forces take position at the scene of an attack on the Indian consulate in Herat province May 23 ,2014.

Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Shoib





(Reuters) - A handful of heavily armed insurgents, including suicide bombers, launched a rocket propelled grenade and gun attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's western city of Herat hours before dawn on Friday, officials said.



Indian staff at the mission escaped soon after the shooting began at around 3 a.m.. Police said Afghan security forces had killed the attackers, who were holed up in buildings overlooking the consulate, following a firefight that lasted several hours.



"They fired a couple of RPG shots. It was dark and they couldn’t verify where it was coming from," India's ambassador to Kabul Amar Sinha told Reuters by telephone.



He said there had been around 10 staff resident at the consulate in Herat, which stands close to the border with Iran and is Afghanistan's third largest city.



The attack underscored a worrying security picture as Afghanistan prepares to take over from foreign combat troops after more than 12 years of war against a Taliban insurgency and prepares for a presidential election run-off next month.



The consulate was guarded by a team of commandos from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. Afghan security forces form an outer ring, an Indian security official in New Delhi said. Herat police chief General Samihullah Qatra told Reuters four attackers, including suicide bombers, had entered houses close to the consulate before dawn and began shooting into the compound.



"There were three suicide bombers armed with AK-47, RPG, hand grenade and suicide vests. Our security forces killed all of them. Only five of our security forces were wounded.”



It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack and no one claimed responsibility, though suspicion would inevitably fall on the Taliban and other loosely associated groups .



On the other side of the country, in the northeast province of Badakhshan, Taliban fightes were holding 27 police and officials hostage, and dozens of people have killed or wounded.





[color="#0000FF"]REPEATED ATTACKS



Militants have repeatedly attacked Indian targets in Afghanistan. Last August, an assault on the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad killed at least nine people, and earlier this year a suicide bomber was gunned down near the consulate in the southern city of Kandahar.



In 2008, suicide bombers attacked the Indian embassy in the capital, Kabul, killing about 50 people and wounding scores. There was another attack on the embassy in 2009.



Security officials in India believe that previous attacks on Indian missions in Afghanistan have been carried out by the Haqqani network, a Taliban and al Qaeda-linked group that has also long had ties with Pakistani intelligence.



U.S. officials and India had also accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence of organising the 2008 attack in Kabul.



Pakistan has long complained about the number of Indian consulates in Afghan cities[/color], fearful that friendship between India and Afghanistan could leave it isolated, and NATO prepares to withdraw the competition for influence in Kabul is expected to become fiercer.



On this occasion, however, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry was quick to issue a condemnation of the attack on the Indian consulate.



"No cause justifies targeting of diplomatic missions. It is a matter of relief that no one from the Consulate staff was hurt," the ministry said in a statement issued in Islamabad.



(Additional reporting by Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati in KABUL and Sanjeev Miglani in NEW DELHI; Writing by Jessica Donati; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

FILED UNDER: World Middle East

[color="#800080"](Uh, since when did Afghanistan join the "Middle East"? Even Iran is usually still "West Asia". I suppose islamically-speaking, Pakiland and Bungladesh to Indonesia are the "middle-east" from US and now UK POV too. Can recall the time AmriKKKans kept referring to the Persian Gulf as "Arab Gulf" and the Iranians got pretty angry about it. Don't know why willing converts to islam should get angry. Being blindly dubbed Arabian is supposed to be the highest compliment - from islam's POV - for islamics the world over.)[/color]

Sounds like the US-KKKangress alliance's Islamic Arm (=TSP and their taliban contacts in AfPak) are at it again.





2. news.in.msn.com/national/afghanistan-consulate-attack-all-gunmen-killed-modi-talks-to-karzai

Fri, 23 May 2014 15:00:00 GMT | By PTI/Agencies

Afghanistan consulate attack: All gunmen killed, Modi talks to Karzai

[color="#0000FF"]Indian staff at the mission escaped soon after the shooting began at around 3 am. Later, police said Afghan security forces had killed the attackers



Kabul: Gunmen armed with heavy weapons including rocket propelled grenades on Friday attacked the Indian Consulate in Afghanistan's Herat province during which three attackers were killed, top Indian officials said.



However, TV reports further claimed that the fourth gunman has also been killed by the security forces.[/color]



Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Herat under attack [color="#800080"](links to: news.in.msn.com/national/indian-consulate-in-afghanistans-herat-province-under-attack)[/color]



All the diplomatic staff were safe. Three gunmen were killed, one by ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) and two by Afghan police, out of four attackers who struck the Consulate which houses two buildings, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Amar Sinha said.



PM-designate Narendra Modi spoke to Amar Sinha and assured all help. Modi also spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and thanked him for the efforts of Afghan forces in thwarting the attack.



Will protect Indian missions, Karzai tells Modi



[color="#0000FF"]Afghan President Hamid Karzai who spoke to Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi assured him that Kabul "will do all to protect Indian missions there".



Modi will be sworn in as prime minister Monday. Karzai is among the SAARC leaders expected to attend the event.[/color]

[color="#800080"](As per the R2004 blog, a representative of TSP has been invited to attend too.)[/color]



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3. foxnews.com/world/2014/05/23/gunmen-attack-indian-consulate-in-western-afghanistan-province-herat-diplomats/

(Filed under Fox News' "Terrorism" section)

Gunmen attack Indian Consulate in western Afghanistan province of Herat; diplomats safe

Published May 23, 2014 • Associated Press

Now that BJP is in power, christoislamaniacs will step up their terrorism against India and Indians all the more, to ensure that The Development Agenda that all internet vocalists are insisting be the primary and essentially sole mandate will come to nothing. (What happened to undoing the inroads made by christoislamania into India? Such as the claws christoislamism has laid deeply into education, media, govt levels, etc? Attempts at development will turn to dust again or get hijacked as an engine for christoislamisation whenever un-nationalists come to power again. There can be no development until christoislamania is undone/de-clawed).