Afghan mosque blast kills many

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Afghan mosque blast kills many


Wednesday 01 June 2005, 10:04 Makka Time, 7:04 GMT


At least 20 people have been killed or injured in an explosion at a mosque in southern Afghan city of Kandahar, with reports that Kabul's police chief is among the dead.


According to Kandahar's deputy police chief, General Salim Khan, the bomb exploded at the entrance to the Mullah Abdul Fayaz Mosque on Wednesday as people were entering the building to pray at a funeral.

An AFP journalist who witnessed the blast, Sohaib Safi, said Kabul police chief General Akram Khakreezwal was among the dead, adding that an unknown assailant dressed in a police uniform had blown himself up immediately upon entering the building.

Safi estimated that more than 20 people had been killed or wounded in the explosion that targeted the funeral of a Muslim cleric who was shot dead by suspected Taliban fighters at the weekend.

"There were some 50 to 60 people inside the mosque when the explosion occurred. This was a very big explosion, and there is blood everywhere in the mosque and outside it. Human limbs are scattered all over the mosque compound," the journalist added.

Khan, however, estimated the number of killed and wounded at around 40, though a precise figure was difficult as other journalists report that many body parts and clothes were strewn around the building.

Funeral target

The explosion occurred inside the mosque in the centre of the city, during the funeral for Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz - who was shot dead by suspected Taliban members because of his vocal support for President Hamid Karzai.

Fayaz served as the head of the Islamic scholar's council,a government-appointed body, and criticised prominent Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar at a recent gathering of clerics.

However, a Taliban spokesman told AFP he knew nothing about the blast and none of his men had contacted him about it.

Kandahar was a stronghold of the Taliban government that was ousted from power in late 2001 by US-led forces for harbouring al-Qaida leader Usama bin Ladin.

Taliban and other rebel groups opposed to Karzai's US-backed government have increased their activities in recent weeks after a winter lull with a series of bombings and other attacks.

US-led coalition forces and Afghan troops have hit back hard, killing nearly 200 suspected insurgents and capturing dozens more since March.


Agencies

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...BE29EB83D2.htm

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Volume 9, Book 88, Number 192:

Narrated Abu Musa:

The Prophet said, "Whoever takes up arms against us, is not from us."

Volume 9, Book 88, Number 193:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "None of you should point out towards his Muslim brother with a weapon, for he does not know, Satan may tempt him to hit him and thus he would fall into a pit of fire (Hell)"

[freestyle_uk]

It should be anyone using arms against an innocent should be condemed to hell not just cos they only belong to your faith group.

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Originally Posted by freestyle_uk

It should be anyone using arms against an innocent should be condemed to hell not just cos they only belong to your faith group.

uhh in this particular case i quoted sayings about killing Muslims.. because that is who was targeted ..


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