Gruesome VIDEO: ISIS in Afghanistan, 33 dead, over 100 wounded in twin Jalalabad blasts | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West

Gruesome VIDEO: ISIS in Afghanistan, 33 dead, over 100 wounded in twin Jalalabad blasts | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West

Gruesome VIDEO: ISIS in Afghanistan, 33 dead, over 100 wounded in twin Jalalabad blasts

AFGHANISTAN GLOBAL JIHAD 2015 

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Photo: people ran for cover after an attack at a bank in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. It was one of three explosions in the city on Saturday. In addition to the deaths, 125 people were reported to be wounded. Credit Parwiz/Reuters

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Obama’s other jihad partners, the Taliban, condemned the attack. Of course, ISIS is muscling in on their savage action. They hit that same bank back in 2011.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, blamed the Islamic State  group for a homicide martyr bombing that killed 35 civilians. If responsibility is confirmed, it will suggest a major escalation of the group’s activities in Afghanistan.

NY Times: The bombing at the Kabul Bank branch here, in which a man wearing an explosive vest targeted a crowd of people waiting to collect their pay, also wounded 125, making it the worst suicide attack this year, Afghan officials said. All of the victims were civilians, the police said.

“Today the deadly attack in Nangarhar Province — who claimed responsibility?” said Mr. Ghani, speaking on national television during a visit to the northern province of Badakhshan, which has been hit hard by recent Taliban attacks. “Taliban did not claim responsibility, but Daesh claimed responsibility.” Daesh is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

If Islamic State militants did carry out the attack, it will be the first time they have struck so far from their Middle East home ground.

The blast at the bank was one of three separate explosions heard in Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar, in quick succession around 8 a.m. Saturday, according to the police.

The Taliban spokesman for eastern Afghanistan, Zabiullah Mujahid, disavowed the bank attack soon after it happened, denying in three different languages on Twitter that Taliban insurgents had been behind it. “We condemn/deny involvement,” Mr. Mujahid wrote in one post.

In 2011, the Taliban claimed responsibility for a similarly deadly attack on the same branch of Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, in which seven suicide attackers killed 38 bank customers, also on a payday. Many Afghans collect their salaries directly from banks as a safeguard against the country’s rampant corruption.

“33 dead, over 100 wounded in twin Jalalabad blasts,” Pajhwok Afghan News (video thanks toUrban Infidel)

A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of Kabul Bank, leaving 33 persons dead and more than 100 injured in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on Saturday morning, a doctor at the provincial civil hospital said.

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