Afghan police blame al-Qaida for Kabul suicide blasts
Afghan police today blamed al-Qaida for twin suicide bombings against Nato peacekeepers in the Afghan capital as the death toll rose to eight with more bodies found in a ditch.
Police commander General Mohammed Akbar said the bodies of the two suicide attackers appeared to those of Arabs.
“Al-Qaida is definitely behind this attack,” he said. “Only al-Qaida has the capability to do this.”
Hours after yesterday’s attacks, a purported Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility.
If al-Qaida is confirmed also to have a hand in them, it would reinforce fears the terror network is still working with the Taliban, which US-led forces ousted from power in 2001 for harbouring Osama bin Laden.
A spokesman for Nato’s peacekeeping force, Major Andrew Elmes, said the bodies were believed to be those of Afghans. An Afghan child was also killed in the second bombing. In the initial blast, a German peacekeeper died.
The new deaths brought the death toll to eight, in addition to the deaths of the two suicide attackers.
