Spring Wish denied as suicide bomber brings down Afghan juice empire

An Afghan worker looks out from a window at a fruit factory which was destroyed by a car suicide bomb attack, in Kabul December 21, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

KABUL (Reuters) - When a Taliban suicide bomber killed two people on the edge of the Afghan capital this month, there was another casualty - a global fruit juice business optimistically called "Spring Wish" which provided work for thousands of farmers across the country.

Mustafa Sadiq's empire had been expanding healthily, bringing in badly needed foreign capital, before the attack inflicted the kind of financial loss cash-strapped Afghanistan can ill afford.