To: kristinn
Jay Price @JayinKabul 1m Journos huddled @ corner of building @ edge of open area. NPR reporter holding audio recorder around corner to pick up sounds of firefight. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 5m Another explosion, bit of quiet, one ANA chopper dipping lower now near building. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 7m An open wasteland, piles dirt between airport & building where attackers apparently holed up. Group of journos yells @ kid in it to shelter. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 11m Three more explosions. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 12m AK and more heavy machine gun fire now around building. Sounds more deliberate, spaced out. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 17m First long period of quiet in a few minutes. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 20m RPG explosion, AK fire now, fighting seems centered on bldg few hundred meters from airport walls. Almost seems standoff has settled in. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 26m Another explosion. There is clearly a hole in one hangar-type building on north side, just now puff of smoke over same building. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 28m Two Russian-made Afghan helicopters overhead now. No NATO choppers or troops in sight. Afghans def. in lead in perimeter of fight @ least. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 32m Afghan Army here @ airport in numbers, another group of ANA commandos going in now on foot. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 36m Another explosion, light and heavy machine guns almost non-stop now. gunners overdoing it wi/long bursts, see something they want bad. Expand Jay Price @JayinKabul 47m Multiple explosions @ Kabul's int'l airport which also serves as a military facility. Heavy machine gun fire on north side of airport now. Expand https://twitter.com/JayinKabul
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06/09/2013 6:58:40 PM PDT by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
I am re-thinking Twitter. News comes in faster than the MSM.
63 posted on
06/09/2013 7:11:51 PM PDT by
Old Sarge
(My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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