Haqqani Network Behind Kabul Suicide Bombing That Killed 13 American Troops….
Same Haqqani Network that Hillary Clinton recently admitted U.S. officials have met with.
Kabul, Afghanistan (NYT) — Every bomb, they say, has a return address.
When car bombs blew up in West Beirut, or explosions cut down worshipers in Sadr City mosques, survivors generally knew who was to blame, and more or less why — even when no one claimed responsibility.
So, too, with the suicide car bomb that on Saturday delivered the worst blow that NATO forces have suffered yet in Kabul, smashing into an armored bus full of troops and killing 13 foreigners, most of them Americans, and at least four Afghans.
The Taliban immediately took credit, but Afghan and American officials here strongly suspect that, more specifically, it was the fearsome Haqqani faction, whose fighters have proved better trained and organized than many Taliban, and which in recent months especially has focused its attacks on military targets rather than civilian ones.
The message the Haqqanis are sending — to the world and, especially, to the Afghan public — is that they are willing and able to kill foreign troops. And with the Haqqani bombs comes a particularly troublesome return address: Pakistan, where the group is based.
One Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity under diplomatic ground rules, said it was clear that if the Haqqanis were behind the attack, the militants were reacting to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent trip to Pakistan. During the visit, she again demanded that the government do something about the Haqqanis, whose bases are in the Pakistani territory of North Waziristan.
“No one goes to this much trouble if they don’t think you’ll get the message,” the diplomat said.
An Afghan political analyst, Haroun Mir, agreed. “These are planned attacks in response to the pressure from the United States on Pakistan against the Haqqani network,” Mir said. Beyond that, he added, “the Pakistanis are sending another message, too: They are not willing to abandon their support of the Taliban.”
Lutfullah Mashal, the spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan intelligence service, said about the bombing on Saturday: “Usually these things are the Haqqani network. Kabul is their area of operation, and all the signs and indications point to the Haqqani network.”
Posted by ZIP on Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 11:03 pm | 
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All in or all out.
All out, with some mind blowing presents delivered to the Pakistani territory of North Waziristan as a parting gift.
If only we had the courage. Hit a mosque every single time they hit us w/an IED.
Clinton can suck on donkey doo.
Katherine–we HAVE BEEN pounding on Waziristan
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0916/US-drones-are-pounding-Pakistan-s-North-Waziristan.-Here-s-why
and it’s not a parting gift…..it’s going to continue.
Smart power results?
@Zippy (bona fide fuster)
I know that we have been sending in the drones. What I had in mind was something much more memorable. And no I’m not talking nuclear.
Any time some ignorant ass from this administration opens their pie hole something bad happens. How’s that for a campaign slogan?
@ Katherine…
Why not nuclear?
Do you think for one minute that the second these terrorist friends of Barry get one, that they will hesitate to use it on us?
A big fat nuke couldn’t send those trogolodytes back any further in history or human evolution anyway.
Why isn’t Hillary’s sorry behind dragged in front of an investigation committee to answer for aiding and abetting the ENEMY?
obama was born and raised Muslim; he is one of them; what do you expect? A drone here and there to appease the US military, negotiating with the enemy, but no real desire to win a war.
Axel has it right. If you want to end this, you have to go in with everything you have, don’t worry about mosques or civilians, who are mostly complicit, or the border with Pakistan. Or just get out. All we are doing now is spending resources and US lives in a no-win stalemate, especially if Hillary is negotiating with the Taliban behind the scene.
Nuke them or get out.
@Rufus
One reason is because Pakistan has nukes, which may not make it to America but you can bet they’ll make it to Israel.
@Katherine
Pakistani nukes could easily be transported to the USA in cargo containers – unbeknownst to customs. Crack the container seal and….uh-oh.