Suicide attack in Kabul on the car of Shukria Barakzai, a member of parliament and women's rights advocate, kills three people and injures 20. Barazaki escapes injury. Reports NYT's Rob Norland:
During the Taliban era, Ms. Barakzai, 42, helped run underground schools for girls. She had enemies on many sides, including powerful warlords. She famously remarked of her fellow legislators, “Our Parliament is a collection of lords. Warlords, drug lords, crime lords.” er husband, an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament, took a second wife without consulting her. Ms. Barakzai remained married to him, but began campaigning against the practice of multiple wives for Afghan men.
Two Afghan soldiers are killed by a roadside bomb but the MoD gives no information as to location.
Former president Karzai accuses U.S. of promoting extremism in the region. "Speaking during an interview with Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Karzai said senior U.S. officials would tell
him that neighboring Pakistan was harboring terrorists responsible for
attacks inside Afghanistan but urge him not to raise the issue with
Pakistani leaders. He said the United States “has been both encouraging the thief to steal and the house owner to safeguard his house.” [He has a point. -- C] But . . .
President Ghani meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad, where the two subsequently make some non-specific statements about cooperation against extremism.
Update: U.S. casualty reported yesterday is identified as Sgt. 1st Class Michael A. Cathcart, of Bay City Michigan. Died Nov. 14 in Kunduz of small arms fire. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
Back in Mesopotamia, you probably don't need to come here to learn that IS claims to have beheaded U.S. hostage Peter Kassig, along with 18 Syrian soldiers. However, on the battlefield, having retaken the city of Baiji, Iraqi forces break the seige of the nearby oil refinery. A car bomb at a checkpoint near the Baghdad airport injures 5 people, while a car bomb later in Baghdad kills 3.
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