At 8:30 a.m. this morning, in the diplomatic quarter of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, a suicide bomber killed at least 90 and wounded 400. The bomb was detonated in a large truck that had been designed to empty septic tanks. It is unclear whether the intended target was the German Embassy, which was approximately 400 yards away and was damaged from the blast, or the Afghan presidential palace:
“The blast was so huge that it dug a big crater as deep as four meters,” said General Hassan Shah Frogh, Kabul’s police chief.
