{"id":30481,"date":"2012-06-22T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30481"},"modified":"2012-06-22T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:41:46","slug":"haqqani-or-taliban-assault-kabul-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30481","title":{"rendered":"Haqqani or Taliban assault Kabul hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-06-21-23-10-26\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that a group of terrorists assaulted a hotel in Kabul, and although the Taliban has claimed credit for the attack, the commander of UN forces in Afghanistan thinks that it was al-Qaeda-linked Pakistani Haqqanis;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kabul Police Chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi said the attackers &#8211; armed with machines guns, rocket-propelled grenades and vests laden with explosives &#8211; stormed the Spozhmai hotel at Qargha Lake before midnight on Thursday. By midmorning Friday, militants were still fighting Afghan forces, supported by international troops, and gunfire pierced the quiet surroundings of the lake area. Black smoke rose from the two-story hotel surrounded by trees as NATO helicopters circled overhead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject, someone in Afghanistan emailed us early yesterday that FOB Salerno had been assaulted again in a suicide attack yesterday and that there were three US casualties. I haven&#8217;t seen anything about it in the press to confirm it, so if there&#8217;s anyone out there who is at Salerno (I know you&#8217;re out there) how about some intel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports that a group of terrorists assaulted a hotel in Kabul, and although the &hellip; <a title=\"Haqqani or Taliban assault Kabul hotel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30481\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haqqani or Taliban assault Kabul hotel<\/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-30481","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\/30481","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=30481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}