On Sunday, insurgents launched a series of coordinated attacks on Western embassies in Kabul, as well as other targets throughout Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s interior minister, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, said that at least two detained terrorists – one captured in Kabul, the other in Jalalabad – have told authorities that the Pakistan-based Haqqani Network is responsible.
The terrorist captured in Jalalabad was trained to be a suicide bomber and explained to authorities that he was dispatched from Pakistan. “One of the suicide bombers detained in Jalalabad by the security forces confessed that yes, they have come from across the border, they have been trained there and they have been equipped there,” Khan Mohammadi explained, according to the New York Times. “They called themselves a branch of the Haqqani network.”
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