At least 17 killed in a suicide attack at a wedding in Afghanistan

At least 17 ​​people have died on Saturday including one called 'warlord' - Ahmad Khan Samangani, national parliament, which offered a reception for the wedding of his daughter - and dozens injured in the worst suicide attack in recent months in Afghanistan, made ​​during a wedding in the north. "The suicide bomber Ahmad Khan Samangani hugged and blew up his explosive vest," according to police sources in the area. The attack occurred around 7.30 am in the morning (local time) at theHotel Qasre Souls Aybak city, capital of Samangan province, a relatively quiet spot where he had his political fiefdom Ahmad Khan.

EXPLOSION IN THE WEDDING HALL

The bomber, according to this source, is popped into the wedding hall where officers were present as Army Commander Ahmad Sayed Samay - some sources put the dead, and others say that is only wounded - or the provincial head of the secret service, died. Police spokesman of Samangan , Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, said that there were 22 killed and 42 wounded, mostly civilians, although the Afghan government later lowered to 17 the number of deaths in the presidential statement of condemnation. Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced, on that note, the opening of an investigation into what happened and blamed the "enemies of Afghanistan," the euphemism used by the Afghan authorities to refer to Taliban insurgents.

WITHOUT CLEAR OWNERSHIP

Although these have often resorted to suicide bombings to eliminate their political opponents and representatives of the State, the militia refused at first to attribute the attack and said they were investigating. "I've been in contact with our mujahideen in Aybak and so far we are not sure of authorship, so we are not responsible for the attack, "the spokesman said Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid from an unspecified location. "Ahmad Khan was an influential figure in the north and there is no doubt that he had many enemies, so it may be a case of personal hostility," said Mujahid. Ahmad Khan was the ethnic Uzbek minority, present in northern Afghanistan , traditionally opposed to the Taliban, who have their main fishing grounds of supporters among the majority Pashtuns, who inhabit mainly the south and east.

SERIOUS CLASHES

Fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan government often hides conflict in the sand dull localpolitics Afghanistan, where the strong men and rural chiefs face virulence, and even national partnerships used to undermine each other. But in the past the Taliban have committed attacksagainst draft some of the strongest men in northern Afghanistan, as Gen. Daud Daud, commander in chief of the northern police and killed in a suicide bombing in May 2011. Its aim is to overthrow the Afghan government to establish a fundamentalist regime and get the immediate withdrawal of international troops, who are immersed in a process of withdrawal with a view to completion in 2014.