Posted on 03/21/2014 6:32:10 AM PDT by jimbo123
Nine people were slain execution-style while they dined at Kabul's most upscale hotel on Thursday, government officials and sources told NBC News.
The victims included four women and two children. Four foreigners were among those killed at the Serena Hotel.
A three-hour battle involving Afghan special forces ended with the gunmen dead, officials said.
The bloodbath began in the hotel’s restaurant at 9 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. ET) as guests celebrated Persian New Year.
The shooters, who are believed to have smuggled pistols into the heavily guarded hotel by hiding them in their socks, took a table at the restaurant. They ordered apple juice before launching the attack, a waiter in the Silk Route Restaurant said.
“Don’t kill us, we’re Afghan,” pleaded one man at a nearby table, according to a witness. The gunmen proceeded to kill the man and two of the children at his table, the witness said.
he gunmen shot most of the victims in the head execution-style, according to witnesses and government officials.
Among the dead is a senior AFP reporter in Kabul, Sardar Ahmad. Ahmad, 40, was killed with his wife and two of his three children, the news service said in a statement.
APF said one of their staff photographers identified the four bodies at a city hospital, adding the family’s youngest son was “undergoing emergency treatment after being badly wounded in the attack."
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It’s Karzai’s problem now.
Honestly, who cares?
Not our problem.
The religion of peace.
I’m sure there were shouts of “Alahu akhbar” (Satan is great) while they were performing this sacred Moslem religious rite.
Note to self: cancel tour of afghanistan. I didn’t realize it featured “eat dinner with your family in a nice restaurant and have your heads blown off by moozlums”.
taliban twisted worthless pieces of s888
> The bloodbath began in the hotel’s restaurant at 9 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. ET) as guests celebrated Persian New Year... “Don’t kill us, we’re Afghan,” pleaded one man at a nearby table, according to a witness. The gunmen proceeded to kill the man and two of the children... Among the dead is a senior AFP reporter in Kabul, Sardar Ahmad. Ahmad, 40, was killed with his wife and two of his three children, the news service said in a statement.
Thanks jimbo123. Pass the popcorn.
Ah, so it was one of those places...
“heavily guarded”, but no one checked to see if they had guns in their socks?
The TSA wouldn’t have missed that one.
This nation had never been conquered,, frankly, who would want a god-forsake hellhole like it.
This just reinforces its freefall into barbarity.
Putin can have it for all I care.
I can’t think of anything worth seeing in Afghanistan anyway, since the Taliban blew up the Bamian Buddhas in 2001.
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