Taliban Attack on Afghan Election Headquarters

Smoke coming from election headquarters after
attack by Taliban

Rosenberg, Matthew. "Taliban Attack Election Panel Headquarters Before Afghan Voting."The New York Times. The New York Times, 29 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.

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On Saturday Taliban fighters opened fire on election panel headquarters, which is a week before voting for the new president of Afghanistan will happen.The Taliban had vowed prior to this that they would attack sometime before the election had started. Thankfully there had been no reports of casualties but not one hundred percent sure if there were or not. The Talibans goal is to derail his election so that they can show that they still have power, this is their third attack in Kabul this week and these attacks are adding lots of tension to the city. Noor Ahmad Noor the election commissions spokesman said that the attack started with two rocket propelled grenades hitting the compound. He then said that the compound “is in total lockdown and we have moved our staff to bankers and safe houses,” he added. “None of the insurgents have managed to breach our security and enter.” This period of elections will be very dangerous for Afghanistan and they will have to take many security measures so that they will have a secure election for next week.