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IMF Representative Killed In Coordinated Taliban Assault On Upscale Kabul Restaurant
The IMF has reported that its resident respresentative in Afghanistan - 60-year-old Wabel Abdallah - is among the 15 people killed in a coordinated assault at a Kabul restaurant by the Taliban. The upscale taverna is well-known to be frequented by foreigners and ex-pats. As Reuters reports, Abdallah had been leading the IMF's office in the Afgan capital since 2008 and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said "this is tragic news, and we at the fund are all devastated."
A resident representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was among at least fourteen people killed on Friday during a coordinated assault on an upscale restaurant popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the Fund confirmed.
“We have just learned that our dear colleague and friend Wabel Abdallah, our Resident Representative in Afghanistan, was killed in an attack at a restaurant in Kabul in which many people were killed,” said IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. “This is tragic news, and we at the Fund are all devastated.”
Lagarde added: “Our hearts go out to Wabel’s family and friends, as well as the other victims of this attack.”
Wabel Abdallah, 60, was a Lebanese national who was appointed Resident Representative in June 2008. He joined the Fund from the Central Bank of Lebanon in 1993, and has held various IMF positions, particularly posts relating to IMF activities and operations in the Middle East.
As AFP reports, this appears coordinated...
It was another friendly evening at the Taverna du Liban restaurant in Kabul, with Afghans and foreigners enjoying the generous helpings of food when a blast exploded outside and gunmen burst in, intent on killing everyone they could find.
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The Taverna was one of the few social venues in Kabul where locals and foreigners mixed with ease, enjoying its Lebanese staples such as hummus, falafel, shawarma kebabs and bakhlava dessert.
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One cook recalled his dramatic escape from the carnage.
"I was sitting with my friends in the kitchen when an explosion happened and smoke filled the kitchen," kebab cook Abdul Majid told AFP while being treated for leg fractures in a nearby hospital.
"A man came inside shouting and he started shooting. One of my colleagues was shot and fell down. I ran to the roof and threw myself to the neighbouring property."
The restaurant's wide range of customers included Afghan businessmen, government officials, foreign diplomats, development consultants and aid workers.
Of course, the assumption is that this is a random attack on an ex-pat and foreigner frequented taverna and not a more specific targeted attack on the people that really pull the strings all over the world. We can only hope that the Greeks don't get any ideas...
However, as Bloomberg reports, it seems more targeted...
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Kabul restaurant filled with foreigners and affluent Afghans, while two gunmen snuck in through the back door and opened fire Friday in a brazen dinnertime attack that killed 16people, officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility within an hour of the attack against La Taverna du Liban, part of a stepped-up campaign of violence against foreign and government interests to send a message that the militants are not going anywhere as the U.S.-led coalition winds down its combat mission at the end of the year.
The bombing served as a reminder that although militant violence in the capital has dropped off in recent months, insurgents remain capable of carrying out attacks inside the most heavily guarded areas.
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Hmmm.
upscale Kabul restaurant = no goats allowed ?
It all about the Fund ementals, of the economy. We too are regretful that the quality of the food we eat in the future won't be as good as before, BITCHES!
Blow up the rest of the IMF too and shoot down their planes before they can land.
Terrorists killing terrorists.
The IMF is more dangerous to planet earth than all the hajis in the world.
"The Propaganda Div of TPTB reports that the Financial Div of TPTB tells it that one of its reps has been killed by "terrorists.
After we return from the break: 1+1 is still 3, and nevermind what those freedom-hating mathmeticians tell you."
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"this is tragic news, and we at the fund are all devastated.".....yeah, about as fucking devastated as I am, next! Super Bowl Sunday, now that'll be "devastating":)
Allahu Akbar!
It's name was Alan's Snack Bar.
Poor IMF. Must find replacement to continue cash payments to Western banks for all the Opium profits.
poppydollar
It all goes to Russia, much to Putin's chagrin. Alcoholism in Russia is bad enough, but to have the West funneling opiates there way....
Basically the US is doing to Russia what Britain did to China 200 years ago.
WTF is the taliban thinking??? The IMF is going to bring down western countries way before the taliban can do it.
They were thinkin that we started a war against them and that it's not over, as widely reported.
Maybe the attackers were just pissed there were no Superman towels included with the opening of an IMF Super Country Destroyer account?
fantastic news, you know they call a dead IMF representative? A good start. Too bad Christine LeStench wasnt there eating Kabobs.
things are looking up
Tragic ? Why? He's going to heaven to have seven virgins. Wait was he a Muslim IMF officer?
Nope he gets 7 VIRGIN COUNTRIES to plunder for the IMF in his next life. I really think this was a message to the IMF to pay more money for the poppy crops this year, the price they had on the table was insulting to the Taliban. Kind of like killing the messengers in the old days when you were offended by the demands.
Leave it to the Taliban to start killing bankers. Go figure?
To you and several others on this thread...
I come for the news, I stay for the comments. Do they serve beer in the joint?
Taliban killing banksters? Now I'm totally confused.
Perhaps it wasn't Taliban. Perhaps the guy was targeted and everyone else in the restaurant was just collateral damage. Perhaps we'll never know the truth.
my sources tell me its a false flag to begin a war against the talib....oh wait........that happened already......
a sad day when its left to the CIA trained and funded Taliban to show Americans in what actions theIr only salvation lies...
but, an auspicious beginning nonetheless...
DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS.......
Could have been hit by a United States of America soldier that stood up for the Nation he was fighting for, after het realized he was just a mercenary, for group of pedophiles
No shit. Aren't the Talibans supposed to be the bad guys?
Even bad guys have morals,same cannot be said for bankers and lawyers.
Was it Legarde? Was it Legarde? Was it Legarde??
merde.
The IMF has offices and employees in out of the way places like Afghanistan. Interesting.
We need a propaganda photo of Obama standing next to a predator drone in front of a large "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner.
Weren't we in Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden? He died on December 15 2001 according to the best information we have. So who, if anyone, was killed on May 1, 2011? Of course, we needed the bogeyman alive for years so we could have the war on terror aka as war on freedom and liberties of the American people.
Pulitzer-prize winner journalist Seymour Hersh on the death of Osama bin Laden:
‘It’s one big lie, not one word of it is true’http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/27/seymour-hersh-on-death-of-osama-bi...
money and terrorists.......both created out of thin air...
''In the late 1980s, when it was apparent the Soviet Union was on its last legs, Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan's national security adviser. One day, he found himself sitting at a table in the Kremlin across from the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
'Ah, General, I'm so sorry,' said Gorbachev, 'you'll have to find a new enemy.'
Or that's how Powell remembered it during an interview last year.
'We lost our best enemy,' he said. 'Our whole structure depended on there being a Soviet Union that might attack us.'''
http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/americas-new-cold-war/2013/11/29/
Now we have a new enemy called "Terror" which can never surrender. So we have a permanent war for a permanent peace. The MIC (Military Industrial Complex) cannot be happier. And our liberties and freedoms have never been lower.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”H.L. Mencken
If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful socialist government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want - a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world . . . first by establishing socialist governments in the various nations and then consolidating them all through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world, socialist super-state ..."
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/NoneDareCallItConspira...
So who, if anyone, was killed on May 1, 2011?
Dunno.
But what we DO know is that the Navy Seals involved in the raid were "disappeared" shortly after.
The spooks are quite efficient at cleaning up loose ends, much like errant IMF officers in Kabul.
Not enough La Garde "orange"?
i'm sure the imf will have no trouble finding another resident representative to give usa taxpayer money to. uh waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup?
The culling begins.
Ya. This is good.
IMF representative is killed? I don't cry over people who don't cry over me. Sorry about the others.
Based on the description of the place, the only innocents in the place would be the staff.
Hopefully they were all in the back when it happened.
A few less criminals, either way.
Does this mean the USA doesn't have to send any more billions to the IMF.
Considering we still owe dues, we don't have to send anything.
Dear Taliban . Thanks !
And in other Breaking News....
15 hospitalised after Gov. 'Krispy Kreme' Christie breaks wind (after 12 courses) in NJ restaurant...
Hope he saw richard simmons before he blowed.
One down. Couple thousand to go.
Probably hit by one of Kerry's disgruntled employees.
Killing the people who pull the puppet strings, good idea.
so, the taliban really are FREEDOM FIGHTERS
Sorry to hear about his death. The IMF doesn't seem to have many freinds.
IMF??
This tape will self destruct in five seconds. Good Luck, Jim.
Can we get a round of applause?
My sources tell me it was that ugly chick from the Progressive commercials. She was making a market on cars with license plates bearing magic number 39. Missed her quota for the month. ByeBye Bashir. Rock the casbah.
Maybe she is the girlfriend of Peter Benjamin Lewis, look up wiki.....After college, Lewis joined Progressive Insurance as an underwriting trainee. In 1965, he and his mother borrowed $2.5 million, pledging their majority stake as collateral, and completed a LBO of Progressive
I agree she is annoying
Are they really after the IMF per se or what?
I think they just want to get at the psychopathic thugs that are taking over their country.
Understandable in many ways.
Trouble is most of the common folk don't see that they are being exloited by a similar bunch of thugs of their own ethnicity, using ignorance and religion to further their own ends.
This seems to be a common thread throughout history.
It's about time humanity grew up.
sounds like they got the Empire's viceroy
"...this is tragic news, and we at the fund are all devastated."
Yeah yeah...
Where's my violin?
Now THIS is doing God's work
Wow, there's still some justice in this world
Another NSA failure in terrorist prevention and rigging Americans to Calm Down.
Fuck you Barry! Someone is about to hit the enter key on you as the puppet of United Stated Superworld crackpot. You'll be finished. Any questions?
Quick!... Everyone check Youtube!...
I'm sure there's a video on there that someone posted a year ago that is insulting to Muslims that is at the core of this attack!...
AT THIS POINT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
sayeth Hillary
This all plays back to the Bank of International Settlements aka Basel III Accord within United States. They will create terrorism so you adopt to new NSA REFORMS under the umbrella of National Security.
Follow the affair of an Indian politician whose wife found he supposedly had an affair with a Pakistani journalist. Twitter accounts got hacked and now the wife is dead. The journalist threatening to sue for slander.
1) This is a very prominent and well liked Indian politician who was at one time next in line for head of UN after Kofi Anan
2) The man was rumored to have the affair with a Pakistani journalist which is worse than being found out gay, even in India
Somehow this all reminds me of Sarajevo and the Crown Prince of Austria assassination. We have a murder (the wife of the politician) and we have two countries involved which are just dying to go to war with each other over anything.
Somehow the UN (cog in the NWO wheel) fits into this and it all comes together.
It is 2014 after all. 100 year anniversary of the start of WW1
Legarde...devastated? that's a stretch..
Too bad Bernanke wan't attending
Wanna go out and eat fancy...that's what ya get
Dead
Fuck'em
Damn GOOD POINT!! The people should sponser extravagant bankster dinners from now on. Get them all in one place. Bombs awaaaaaay!!! Ahahahahahahaha
not to be jaundiced and all but
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they never let a crisis go to waste.
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if you like your tragedy and crisis you can
keep your tragedy and crisis as, after all,
you didn't make that crisis and tragedy.
The IMF are a den of thieves that turn entire sovereign nations into debt-slaves.
If the Taliban kills one of these assholes they can't be all bad.
Agreed. But if these fucker's are on the IMF payroll. All bets are off in the SDR funding structure. Understand?
But I thought the Taliban were the bad guys? Now they are killing the Ponzi scheme IMF? Confused.
What goes around comes around.
Ahahahahahahahaha Yahoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! Hopefully this maggot will be the first of MANY!!!!!! I hope killing banksters becomes a fad and the "terrorists" target them. I'd say the guys shooting the Banksters are the Patriots and the banksters are the terrorists. Yipeeeeeeeeeee, oh gee whata tragedy.
Those pencil neck bankster motherfuckers better get locked and loaded. You're on the frontlines now bitchez. How do you like your new war? Welcome to the party motherfuckers.
Ya, seriously, people don't even tell lawyer jokes anymore.
Now it's all about the banksters.
The lawyers are quite happy at the change.
How about inviting these Taliban boys to the IMF meeting for a real hoot?
It's a start
I hope to see this kind of action in other places.
IMF and World Bank are financial terrorists - see Jon Pilger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bZ71fUZRU
"...said IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. "
This bitch has Chicago connections.
(Needless to say.)
"IMF Representative Killed In Coordinated Taliban Assault"
Maybe those Taliban guys aren't so bad after all.
Perhaps we could all chip in a few bucks, and charter a plan for them to Davos.
"We can only hope that the Greeks don't get any ideas..."
Sounds like a hint to me
Interesting that this is called a barbarous act of terror by MSM but drone strikes are OK - says a lot.
Thanks Taliban. Please finish the rest of this EVIL organization too while you're at it. The world will be in your debt.