Taliban Commits Mass Murder, AP Publishes Their Press Release
Charles Johnson
Mon Jan 14, 2008 at 8:05 am PST • Views: 613
Today the Taliban attacked a hotel in Kabul, murdering at least two innocent people, and the Associated Press published a Taliban press release within minutes: 2 dead in attack on luxury Kabul hotel.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked Kabul’s most popular luxury hotel Monday evening, killing at least two people in a coordinated assault rarely seen in the Afghan capital, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.
It appeared to be the first direct attack on a hotel in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
The 6:12 p.m. attack came on a night the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. An American inside said she saw a body she believed to be dead and pools of blood in the lobby, and hotel employees reported two dead. She said three foreigners were wounded.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told The Associated Press that four militants with suicide vests attacked the hotel — one bomber who detonated his explosives and three militants who threw grenades and fired guns and then fled. The claim could not be verified but came very soon after the attack. The bomber was not included among the count of the dead.
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