{"id":26498,"date":"2011-09-13T18:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2011-09-13T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:14:20","slug":"firefight-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26498","title":{"rendered":"Firefight in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Schogol from Stars &#038; Stripes sends us a video of some the firefight today in Kabul when Taliban attacked the US Embassy there;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M6AM8VpwMJc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The kids burned up some ammo. I sure hope they hit something. A lot of somethings. From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/explosions-gunfire-kabul-near-embassy-district-092541756.html\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 9 people were killed and 23 wounded in the four attacks, and a gun battle around a half-built high-rise building raged on into the evening as NATO and Afghan attack helicopters circled overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The fighters had chosen a strategic and heavily fortified main target for the well-coordinated attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Their ability to shower artillery around the diplomatic district was a clear show of strength at a time when NATO-led forces are claiming significant security gains and preparing for their exit by 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Taliban have attacked multiple targets in Kabul in the past, this is the first time they have organized simultaneous assaults on such separate areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how the closer we get to the withdrawal, the forces we&#8217;re fighting become bolder. Who saw that coming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Schogol from Stars &#038; Stripes sends us a video of some the firefight today in &hellip; <a title=\"Firefight in Kabul\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26498\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefight in Kabul<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}