Blog 9: Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Tribal Elder, Teresa Lindsey. 04/11/2014 3:08 p.m.

Summary

The article titled “Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Tribal Elder” discusses an incident that took place on Friday in a market in eastern Afghanistan, A suicide bomber blew himself up and killed a pro-government tribal elder and wounded three civilians. At about 2 p.m. the bombing struck the tribal elder Gul Babri in the market of Jani Khil district of Paktiya province. Nobody immediately came forward to claim responsibility for the attack This attack came on the end of elections on April 5 for a new president and provincial councils and there have been many attacks in prior weeks leading up to the elections. The Taliban vowed to target polling stations and election workers but on Election Day millions of Afghans exercised their right to vote without bloodshed. Authorities in another eastern province, Ghazni, said some attacks were foiled when a suicide bombers explosives-packed vest detonated in a religious school earlier this month, killing 16 other militants who had been planning attacks against the balloting. As a result of this three Pakistanis and an Afghan Taliban commander were among those killed in a remote area of the Gilani district. The circumstances were unclear however district police Chief Mohammad Hashim said the explosion was an accident that happened during a training exercise in which the Pakistanis were demonstrating how to use the vests.

Analysis

This article highlights once again the violence that continues to happen in this world due to who someone chooses to worship or who they want to elect into office. There appears to be no place that is off limits for these coward suicide bombers to blow up; it doesn’t matter if it’s a school, church, hotel, market, mall, or a daycare. No one is safe and no one is exempt. It used to be back in the day if someone was going to break a crime they wouldn’t dare do it in broad daylight for fear of being seen and getting caught but times have changed and criminals have grown some mighty big balls because they will gun you down or bomb you in the light of day and not blink an eye or give a rats ass because they are prepared to die also. Innocent people dying for no valid reason at all this nonsense needs to stop and it needs to stop right now!

Link:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/suicide-bomber-kills-afghan-tribal-elder/2014/04/11/5a171894-c186-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_story.html