More Trouble In Kabul

[Mickey Finn 3,052]

Taliban "fighters" who thought they were attacking an unprotected day-care center. Stumbled into a fire fight. Four were killed and the last commited suicide.

 

Good riddance.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/world/asia/taliban-militants-attack-kabul-house-and-trap-foreigners.html?_r=1

 

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban assailants apparently thought they were attacking an unprotected Christian-run day care center. But they mistakenly burst into the compound next door, where an American government contractor’s employees were heavily armed and ready, according to accounts that the contractor and the Afghan police gave on Friday of a wild four-hour shootout here.

 

The contractor, Roots of Peace, which runs agricultural projects financed by the United States Agency for International Development, had taken the precaution of blocking its front gate with an armored Land Cruiser, which guards used to take cover behind and shoot at the attackers, said Gary Kuhn, the group’s president, interviewed by telephone from its headquarters in San Rafael, Calif.

That slowed the attackers enough for the guards and the five foreign residents to retreat into the house and upstairs. “There’s a circular staircase which is very hard to take cover on. One tried coming up it, and the guard shot him,” Mr. Kuhn said, citing accounts from his staff members in Kabul.

 

Two of the residents, Americans, hid in their bedroom closets. “One very big, tall man hid in a closet and piled clothes on top of himself, while the Taliban were shooting in his room, throwing flash grenades, and even opened the closet door but didn’t see him,” said Heidi Kuhn, the group’s chief executive and Mr. Kuhn’s wife, who also was interviewed by telephone in California. “It’s a miracle all of them escaped.”

Mr. Kuhn said the bedroom gunman might have been a police officer clearing the scene, since the Taliban assailants were unlikely to have used flash grenades, which are designed to stun and frighten, not kill.

While the gun battle was underway, next door, at what apparently had been the Taliban’s intended target, a Christian-run day care center that had no armed guards and normally left its front door open, police were able to rescue two dozen foreigners, according to Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi, the deputy interior minister, who went to the scene. Their nationalities were unclear but they appeared to be Americans or Europeans.

Journalists who saw them escorted out said at least five young Western children were among the group, highly unusual sights here.

Mr. Kuhn, who with his wife visits Kabul frequently, said the day care center was not a church, as the Taliban had asserted, but acknowledged that “they do have religious services there on certain days.”

Expatriates in Kabul dropped children off there for the day routinely, he said. Nevertheless, very few organizations employing expatriates in Afghanistan allow them to bring families and children because of the risk.

Afghan officials said all five Taliban attackers were killed, including one who committed suicide. The death toll also included two Afghan civilians, one of them a young girl. Two Roots of Peace guards were wounded.

The shootout was the latest in a series of deadly attacks on foreign journalists, aid workers and visitors since January, in the midst of heavy security for the Afghan presidential election campaign.

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Funny as. Serves the snidey fuckers right.

[TOMO 27,261]

Well they get no sympathy on here that's for sure,,,,good riddance ,,,,

 

Reading that report though,,,,,,who in there right mind would take a child to afghan ,,if you had a contract out there,,,,and even if you did,,,would you drop it off at a daycare centre?

 

What also intrigues me about that story,,,is,,,if all the talibans were killed in the firefight,,,how do they know they accidentally got the wrong target

[Born Hunter 17,832]

Tomo, the day care center is probably used by locals, not foreigners.

 

Also, I imagine the true target was identified by authorities from intelligence gathered from the dead taliban.

[The Seeker 3,048]

Good riddance to bad scum

[TOMO 27,261]

I'm sure it is born,,,but in the report it said there were 5 western kids in there,,,,,i mean come on,,,,a christan day care centre in Kabul ,,,,,would you leav a child there

[Born Hunter 17,832]

Missed that bit! f**k no!

[scothunter 12,609]

Wouldn't even take my kid there to start with.

[The one 8,529]

Payback is sweet

[Mickey Finn 3,052]

I'm sure it is born,,,but in the report it said there were 5 western kids in there,,,,,i mean come on,,,,a christan day care centre in Kabul ,,,,,would you leav a child there

I've met a couple I might. But you pose some good questions about the itelligence report. I've no idea where they came by it.

 

ATB

[WILF 48,203]

Americans in a battle !!.......book another 20 places in the PTSD ward and a green room on Oprah !! Lol

[BIG G wheton machine 1,594]

Hopefully they scribed from marine a with love on the bullets

[Country Joe 1,411]

Heard on channel4 news their economy is 70% World Aid, and 30% from Opium,

When all troops finally go, will the Taliban just take over ?

[BIG G wheton machine 1,594]

Heard on channel4 news their economy is 70% World Aid, and 30% from Opium,

When all troops finally go, will the Taliban just take over ?

it should be given to them and cut off all aid and leave them too it

[beast 1,884]

Peachy Carnehan: They're savages here, one and all. Leave 'em to go back to slaughterin' babes, and playin' stickball with each other's heads, and pissin' on their neighbors.

 

thats a quote from the film "the man who would be king". has a certain relevance i feel......

 

when is the "West" going to realise that all these countries in africa and asia where the americans and europeans try to set up western-style governments simply are not ready for democracy? they are too culturally tied to tribalism to ever understand even the principal of democracy, let alone truly buy into it.