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"War is deceit." An update on this story. "Afghan hotel attacker wore cop uniform," by Jason Straziuso for the Associated Press:
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials have arrested four men following an attack on Kabul's main luxury hotel, including one suspected of wearing a police uniform during the multi-pronged assault that killed eight, officials said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a militant connected to an insurgent leader in Pakistan was accused of masterminding the attack, which left at least one American among the dead and could signal a new era of brazen extremist assaults in Afghanistan.
Police said they also found a video made by two of the attackers in a home in Kabul, where they arrested two men. A fourth man — believed to have driven the attackers to the Serena Hotel — was arrested in eastern Afghanistan while trying to flee to Pakistan.
Amrullah Saleh, the head of Afghanistan's intelligence service, said three militants stormed the Serena Hotel on Monday evening. A guard shot and killed one attacker at the gate to the hotel's parking lot, which triggered his suicide vest.
A second attacker blew himself up near the entrance to the hotel's lobby, and the third attacker made it inside the hotel and shot his way through the lobby and toward the gym, Saleh said. A man alleged suspected of being the third attacker was arrested Monday.
The three militants stormed the popular luxury hotel just after 6 p.m., hunting down Westerners who had cowered in a gym. More than 30 U.S. soldiers in a half-dozen Humvees rushed to the hotel, and security personnel from the nearby U.S. Embassy ran to the scene.
Blood covered the lobby floor as gunfire rang out, witnesses said.
Saleh said the attack was masterminded by Mullah Abdullah, a close ally of Siraj Haqqani, a well-known militant leader thought to be based in Pakistan's tribal area in Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. The U.S. military has a $200,000 bounty out on Haqqani.
Police arrested a man named Humayun, allegedly a key link to Abdullah, in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday as he was trying to flee to Pakistan, Saleh said, accusing him of supplying the assailants with weapons, explosives and suicide vests and driving them to the hotel.
Saleh showed a picture taken from the hotel's security cameras showing a gunman in a police uniform inside the hotel's lobby, apparently the third attacker. He was apprehended 15 to 20 minutes after the attack began, he said.
"The third person, after killing a number of the guests, maybe he changed his mind for some reason, he didn't detonate himself," Saleh said. "He changed his clothes and later when security forces searched the premises, he was arrested."
Posted by Marisol at January 15, 2008 10:54 AM
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The democratization program should first have been preceded by a de-Islamization program. Without that, it's not worth the risks of terrorism and ultimate backsliding into despotism.
Afghanistan is evolving into the same sort of chaos that has characterized Iraq, proving once again that simply setting up a democratic infrastructure is not enough.
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at January 15, 2008 11:18 AM
"...was arrested in eastern Afghanistan while trying to flee to Pakistan..."
....terrorists fleeing to Pakistan...go figure...
at January 15, 2008 11:25 AM
"War is deceit".
No book vindicates this fact more than "The greatest story ever sold" by Frank Rich.
http://farleftwatch.wordpress.com/
Posted by: redandwhitestripes at January 15, 2008 11:27 AM
"hunting down Westerners who had cowered in a gym."
Notice the use of the word "cowered" here. Not "had taken refuge," not "sought safety," not "taken shelter." No "cowered" like cowards.
Whereas the attackers were "daring and sophisticated" (see other A.P. story in earlier story); Swashbucklers.
A.P. writers reveal themselves in subtle ways like this. Insidious bias.
Posted by: alexon at January 15, 2008 12:02 PM
""hunting down Westerners who had cowered in a gym."
....the MUslims are lucky that the westerners were not members of JimBobs hunt camp from Valdosta Georgia.....
....it can be hard hunting down westerners when the westerners are armed and will fight back...
...as usual, the preferred target of Jihadists from Islam are the soft unarmed targets...usually civilians , women and children included....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 15, 2008 12:14 PM
The U.S. military has a $200,000 bounty out on Haqqani.
I hope that bounty is for a DEAD haqqani. What use is he to us alive when the LEFTISTS - yes, that includes J. McINSANE are hellbent on letting all of these terrorists loose.. maybe open up Gitmo and let the stroll the street of New York City until they appear [yea, soooorr..] for a fair trial by a jury of their peers.. if none can be found the ACLU will sue the government [which is supposed to be us, by the people for the people] to have their peers flown in from islamostan so they are insured a fair and impartial trial!
PLEASE, any Republicans here.. DO NOT vote McINSANE please!! They guy is too old and knows not what he does.
Posted by: Allah Schmallah at January 15, 2008 3:05 PM
US should by all rights annihilate Waziristan and blame the response soley on terrorists using the province as a base of operations to kill US, NATO, and anyone else they desire, doing so in teh most disgusting ways.
Can anyone imagine the Romans having nukes putting up with this? This is what being "civilized" means now, tolerating evil, acquiescing to terror, and being killed by the queensberry rules....hey in the end, the west can go down with pride, and say, at least we all died having the moral highground !
Posted by: Sneakyzionistcrusader at January 15, 2008 3:59 PM
"...it can be hard hunting down westerners when the westerners are armed and will fight back..." --exsgtbrown
Yup. STOUT resistance is the only option. It's either that or we sign over our grandchildren in slavery to Oolah.
Posted by: alexon at January 15, 2008 4:18 PM
Hit back HARD and then we'll see how daring and sophisticated these brave killers of civilians are.
Posted by: alexon at January 15, 2008 4:21 PM
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