Ready or not ... Afghan uniformed police. Photo: ReutersReluctance To Engage In Hotel Battle Raises Questions Of Afghan Preparedness -- Sydney Morning Herald
KABUL: Nazir Amini, an Afghan visiting from his home in Germany, had just come back from the buffet with a bowl of ice-cream when he saw two men armed with an AK-47 rifle and a machinegun emerge and start shooting at guests seated around the pool at the Intercontinental Hotel, one of the capital's most fortified buildings.
Women and their children screamed. Chairs tipped backwards. Food slid onto the lawn as people started to run. Mr Amini said he saw police officers running, too, gripping their AK-47s as they raced from the gunmen.
"I said, 'Why don't you shoot? Shoot!' " he recalled. "But they just said, 'Get away from them'. And we all ran together."
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