2014 Kabul restaurant bombing

January 2014 Kabul restaurant bombing
Part of War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
Location	Kabul, Afghanistan
Date	14 January 2014
Attack type	Suicide bombing
Weapons	Bomb
Deaths	21 (+1 bomber)
Perpetrators	Taliban

On January 17, 2014 a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gate of the Taverna du Liban, a heavily fortified restaurant in Kabul popular with foreign nationals, including diplomats, aid workers and journalists; two gunmen then entered the building and began "shooting indiscriminately."^[1] 21 people were slain.^[2]

The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.^[1]

Casualties

Victims by nationality
Nationality^[3]	Dead
Afghanistan	8
Lebanon	2
United Kingdom	2
Canada	2
United States	2
Denmark	1
Malaysia	1
Russia	1
Pakistan	1
Somalia	1
Total	21

Wabel Abdallah, head of the Afghanistan office of the International Monetary Fund.^[1]
Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of energy and of the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia.^[2] Petersen had recently joined the faculty at the American University in Kabul.^[2]^[4]

References

1 2 3 "Suicide bomb attack on Kabul restaurant 'kills 14'". BBC. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
1 2 3 Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel (21 January 2014). "In Memoriam: Alexandros Petersen, Murdered By The Taliban In Kabul". Forbes. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/18/two-britons-killed-kabul-restaurant-attack-taliban
↑ Torrance, Kelly Jane (3 February 2014). "Alexandros Petersen, 1984-2014 Kelly Jane Torrance on The Most Interesting Man in D.C." Weekly Standard. Retrieved 5 October 2015.

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