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American University Under Attack in Kabul, Afghanistan
ABC ^ | 24 Aug 2016 | Michael Edison Hayden

Posted on 08/24/2016 9:26:27 AM PDT by mandaladon

The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul is under assault, while security forces exchange gunfire with the attackers.

The number of students and professors inside are unknown, as is the identity of the attackers.

The U.S. State Department this morning acknowledged reports of the attack on an official Twitter account.

"Reports of attack on American University in Kabul. Exercise caution, avoid unnecessary movement in the area & monitor news for updates," the agency said.

Massoud Hossaini, a photographer for The Associated Press, tweeted that he is trapped inside.

“Help we are stuck inside AUAF and shooting flollowed [sic] by Explo this maybe my last tweets,” he wrote.

The attackers managed to enter Noor Hospital, adjacent to the school, according to eyewitnesses.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; clinton; obama; terrorattack; terrorism; trump
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To: treetopsandroofs

And the DUmp will start their daily death thread which has been missing for the past 8 years, for some odd reason.


41 posted on 08/24/2016 10:55:24 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: mandaladon

This is terrible.

But why is there an American University in Afghanistan?


42 posted on 08/24/2016 11:00:54 AM PDT by WayneS (“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill)
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To: ctdonath2
Well I know I'll sleep better tonight...
43 posted on 08/24/2016 11:03:01 AM PDT by WayneS (“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill)
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To: mandaladon

Attack is the result of some awful internet video.


44 posted on 08/24/2016 11:06:00 AM PDT by BAW (It's gunna be Yuge!)
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To: WayneS
But why is there an American University in Afghanistan?

Bush's fault, of course. (In this case, Laura Bush's fault).

45 posted on 08/24/2016 11:09:24 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: mandaladon

I would assume a LOAD of our guys have already headed there!!


46 posted on 08/24/2016 11:22:53 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: mandaladon
IMHO, American University anything is a Muslim dominated country is just asking for trouble.
47 posted on 08/24/2016 11:33:05 AM PDT by upchuck (The very worst of Trump is much better than the very best of Killary. Go TRUMP!)
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To: caww
You will never ever be able to bring these backward people [Muslims] into the modern world...never.

BUMP!!

48 posted on 08/24/2016 11:37:28 AM PDT by upchuck (The very worst of Trump is much better than the very best of Killary. Go TRUMP!)
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To: mandaladon

UPDATE:

At least 1 reported dead, 25 wounded in attack on American University of Afghanistan

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/24/gunfire-reportedly-heard-at-american-university-afghanistan.html


49 posted on 08/24/2016 12:55:38 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Scythian_Reborn
how have we put up with it this long?

We had Jorge Busho who was the Saudi king's lapdog. And Jorge gave us O'Dimwit, the raghead potus.

50 posted on 08/24/2016 1:41:55 PM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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To: mandaladon; Fred Nerks
Mohammed Sharif Fayez (born 1946 in Herat, Afghanistan) was Minister of Education in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2007, and founded the American University of Afghanistan ( پوهنتون امریکایی افغانستان). He served as head of the university for its first two years, 2004-2006.
51 posted on 08/24/2016 1:43:21 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: treetopsandroofs

If any one of those people has or has relatives who donated a million plus to the Clinton Foundation, they’ll be fine.


52 posted on 08/24/2016 5:17:55 PM PDT by lizma2 (')
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To: caww

“You will never ever be able to bring these backward people into the modern world...never. All the Afghan refugees who have made it to Europe are predominately illiterate and unskilled at anything.”

Until Westerners start breeding again, those Muslims will become “the modern world”. Ours is melting away before our eyes, both here and abroad...


53 posted on 08/24/2016 7:15:05 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: mandaladon

Go to your safe space! Shelter in place! The baddies will go away all on their own!


54 posted on 08/24/2016 8:16:18 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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At least 13 killed, 36 wounded in attack on American University in Afghanistan

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/25/at-least-12-killed-36-wounded-in-attack-on-american-university-in-afghanistan.html

Published August 25, 2016 FoxNews.com


55 posted on 08/25/2016 9:04:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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