I was watching BBC World News just now when they reported this place was attacked; no other details available at this time.| Based on that, Raj, I checked our usual Afghan sources at 10:40 p.m. ET Sunday, and found the following: |
Mon Jan 29 2018, 7:22 am
[KhaamaNews] A group of forces of Evil have launched a coordinated attack on a military academy in Kabul earlier this morning.
According to the initial reports, a group of forces of Evil are engaged in heavy shootout with the security forces in the vicinity close to the Marshal Fahim military academy and several of kabooms apparently that of RPGs have been heard.
In the meantime, the local residents and the eyewitnesses are saying that the target of the attack is the 111th division of the army located close to the military academy.
There are no reports regarding the casualties and no individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the attack.
Military Academy In Kabul Under Attack
TODAY - 6:48 AM
[ToloNews] Explosions and gunfire ongoing in what appears to be yet another attack in Kabul city.
Insurgents launched an early morning attack on the Marshal Fahim Military University in PD5 In Kabul city.
The attack was launched at about 5am.
According to a source inside the camp kabooms and gunfire can be heard coming from the direction of the entrance.
TOLOnews journalist Gulabuddin Ghubar reports from the area that security forces have blocked off all roads in the area.
| Here’s hoping the good guys wreak havoc on the bad guys who started it. Thank you, Raj, for posting the original information even though you didn’t have a proper article. Update from the BBC at 6:30 a.m. ET, courtesy of a link provided by Skidmark: |
Sixteen other Afghan soldiers were maimed, a defence ministry front man told the BBC.
Five murderous Moslems were involved, said the front man. Four were killed in the attack but one was nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS), according to the holy warrior group's Amaq news agency.
Earlier reports said the attack had taken place at Marshal Fahim National Defense University, which is near the military base.
How did Monday's attack unfold?
Several kabooms were heard, as well as small-arms fire, as the attack began at about 05:00 local time (00:30 GMT) at the military base in western Kabul.
Two attackers blew themselves up, two others were killed by security forces and a fifth was arrested, defence ministry front man Gen Dawlat Waiziri told the BBC.
Four AK-47 assault rifles, one boom jacket and one rocket-launcher were seized, he said.
The president's spokesperson said none of the attackers had been able to get further than the first gate, Afghan news website Tolo reports.
Afghan military institutions are frequently targeted by holy warriors.