After Afghan Attack, Some See U.S. Role

Mr. Rashid said. Wholesale Inflatable Outdoor Christmas Decorations Thi is onli an attack, But thei can t overthrow the government. an effort at strangulation. Kabul is safe with the presenc of all these secur forces.

shopkeep return to hawk tape of Madonna alongsid record of Afghan and Bollywood stars,Nearby. and a crowd of men joke with a man wear a larg shawl, becaus that wa the same outfit the attack wore on Mondai to hide their guns.

convinc that it would happen again and lack faith in the govern s abil to stop such attacks,Stoic about the assault. those who work near the site that were attack were most interest in the question of why the insurg had not kill more civilians.

said Moham Essa, Thei could have slaughter everyon in Faroshga. 35, a shoemaker, refer to the shop center that two suicid bomber enter Mondai morn and left a shell. But the gun battl there with Afghan secur forces, which last for hours, kill onli five peopl two civilian and three member of the secur forces. The Taliban claim respons for the attacks.

Mr. Essa said. If thei want to, It doe impress us. thei could have kill everyone.

We can destroi whatev we want,There were nod of assent on the rais platform where the shoemak sit in a row under a tatter awning. Their goal wa someth else. Thei want to show the government. and look what thei did, said 17-year-old Hamid Shah, gestur at the blacken build behind him as he hammer a new heel on a custom s shoe.

two men wear the larg blanket-lik shawl favor by Afghan men to keep out the winter chill enter the build and went up to the fourth or fifth floor. There,A ccord to numer account from shopkeep who were in the build on Monday. thei threw off their cloaks, reveal heavi weapons, and told peopl to get out.

accord to sever accounts,Thei fatal shot on boy. and thei point their gun at a watchman and a cleaner, fire on either side of them while shout that everyon should leave. With onli a few exceptions, peopl in the build emerg unscathed.

the chief of intelligence,A fghan intellig offici sai thei believ that the scarciti of mani civilian death wa more a matter of chanc than intent. Amrullah Saleh. said the origin target had been the govern s central bank, which a suicid bomber tri to enter, but he wa shot befor he could get inside. Had he been abl to deton himself inside, mani employe and visitor would have been killed.

Mr. Saleh said,The two men in shawl had plan to follow him into the bank. but when he wa shot, thei ran into the shop center nearby.

both heavili armed,Peopl who were near the site of the attack said that that still did not explain why the two men. had not deton their explos insid the shop center.

for example,A dozen peopl interview all agre that the govern wa too weak to prevent such assaults. Politician and averag Afghan questioned. how the attack had been abl to move undetect through mani checkpoint to reach the center of Kabul.

said Noor ul-Haq Uloumi, The question is how come these terrorist ar abl to come all the wai from the border to Kabul with all their ammunit and stuff. a member of Parliament who sit on it Defens Committee.

thi corrupt can bring mani of such attacks,He said that corrupt wa probabl involved. There ar mani report of case where guard have been bribe to enabl crimin or insurg to move through an area. If we cannot elimin corrupt in the govern and cannot make a govern base on the rule of law to serv the peopl of Afghanistan. Mr. Uloumi said.

60,A zizullah. who sell music tape from a booth that is onli a few inch wider than hi shoulders, made a similar point. The govern ha police, intellig guard and armi soldier in all the crossroads, so how can these peopl get in? said Mr. Azizullah, who like mani Afghan us on name.

600 Afghan across the countri led to the conclus that the bribe peopl pai account for nearli a quarter of the countri s gross domest product. Corrupt is so pervas that the Unite Nation Office on Drug and Crime report on Tuesdai that interview with 7.

said Zia-ul Haq,Some Kabul resid specul that Mondai s attack had been engin by the Unite State to justifi stai longer in Afghanistan. Mayb the American ar behind it. 22, who work in a stationeri store a few feet from the site of a second major attack on Monday, in which a milit drive an ambul blew himself up. Otherwise, how could thei have come through all these secur checkpoints?

he said. It is mastermind by insiders.

the capital Inflatable Spiderman Jumpers ,Sever Afghan said thei thought that the main motiv for the attack wa propaganda: to show the world that Kabul. wa vulnerable. But at the same time, no on seem to think that the govern wa in danger of be overrun.

said Abdul Rashid, Thi is to show the Afghan govern and the intern that thei can carri out an attack on kilomet from the presidenti palace. 45, who stood outsid the Faroshga center wait for a watchman to open the lock gate, so he could inspect the char remain of hi shop.