One of the blackest days of Kabul

Yesterday was clearly a bad day. It was a black day for Kabul but it wasn’t THE blackest of Kabul days. There have been days where hundreds of Afghans have been killed in rocket attacks in Kabul alone.
Nevertheless, it was still a dark day. And it’s haunting.
Next door, in Peshawar 107 people killed in a [...]

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UN guesthouse comes under commando-style attacks

It’s 9.02 am.
6am. Neighbouring suburb, a UN guest house in Sheerpur has come under attack. 6 militants stormed the house and began shooting, killing three UN workers and injuring around five. Numbers to be confirmed. Of course, the Afghans killed haven’t been mentioned yet.
I heard more explosions, sounded like an RPG and then gun firing.
It [...]

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The protest continues

It’s 10.18am. Kabul time.
Yesterday around this time I could hear shouting outside “Death to America” “Death to Democracy”.
Protestors protesting against NATO troops burning the Quraan. En route to Parliament.
20,000 young men. Mostly university students.
A few moments ago approximately 20-30 police cars. Police armed in riot gear speeding towards the parliament. There are reports that another [...]

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Armed and ready to fire…

As I type, there are protest and gunshots outside over 10,000 people.
 
more to come…
 
heading to safety for now

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Run off elections- a big mistake

The run off is a big, big mistake.
Karzai – 54% of the votes (more than necessary to win the elections)
Abdullah Abdullah – around 30%
Okay so some of Karzai’s ballots were ‘fraudulent votes’ (let me point out some of Dr Abdullah’s were too!). ECC found out and decided to throw Karzai’s votes out which dropped his [...]

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Back in Kabul…

So I’m back in Kabul.
It’s Friday 16th October and I’m typing this in Word because the internet is down. How convenient! Second day back and I’m already on lockdown!!!! The reason being – election results may be announced any day soon so they’re taking precautionary measures not to have any of us retards blown to [...]

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