Taliban denies role in killing of UAE diplomats

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Taliban denies role in killing of UAE diplomats
By Bill Roggio | January 11th, 2017 | admin@longwarjournal.org | @billroggio

Five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates were among 11 people killed in a bombing at a guest house in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, yesterday. The UAE’s ambassador to Afghanistan, as well as the governor of Kandahar, were also wounded in the attack. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the Taliban distanced itself from it.

In a brief statement released on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban’s official propaganda website, the group denied that it was responsible for the blast:

“We reject involvement in Kandahar province guest house attack which left dozens of enemy officials, MP and foreign gusts [sic]” killed or wounded, the Taliban said. “This was enemy internal dispute as Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate have no operation last night in the said province [sic].”

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