On January 17, 2014, a

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er detonated explosives at the gate of the Taverna du Liban, a heavily fortified restaurant in

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popular with foreign nationals, including

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workers and

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s; two gunmen then entered the building and began "shooting indiscriminately." 21 people were slain. The

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immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

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*Wabel Abdallah, head of the Afghanistan office of the

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. * Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of energy and of the geopolitics of the

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and

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. Petersen had recently joined the faculty at the American University in Kabul.

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