In Quiet Kabul Neighborhood, Taliban Attack Began With Mugging At Mosque -- McClatchy News
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attack that paralyzed a key NATO headquarters at Kabul’s international airport early Monday began, as it turns out, with a mugging outside a mosque.
The seven Taliban fighters drove into a residential neighborhood adjacent to the northern, military side of the airport, in a car and a delivery truck, about 4 a.m. Monday. They got out and tried to enter a house but the gate was locked, said a man named Berhannudin, who was walking with a friend to a nearby mosque for morning prayers.
All but one were in the uniform of the A
The seven Taliban fighters drove into a residential neighborhood adjacent to the northern, military side of the airport, in a car and a delivery truck, about 4 a.m. Monday. They got out and tried to enter a house but the gate was locked, said a man named Berhannudin, who was walking with a friend to a nearby mosque for morning prayers.
All but one were in the uniform of the A
The seven Taliban fighters drove into a residential neighborhood adjacent to the northern, military side of the airport, in a car and a delivery truck, about 4 a.m. Monday. They got out and tried to enter a house but the gate was locked, said a man named Berhannudin, who was walking with a friend to a nearby mosque for morning prayers.
All but one were in the uniform of the Afghan border police, he said, which has its national headquarters nearby.
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My Comment: Why rob a cell phone before a suicide attack? I guess one of the Taliban fighters wanted to make one last phone call.
All but one were in the uniform of the Afghan border police, he said, which has its national headquarters nearby.
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My Comment: Why rob a cell phone before a suicide attack? I guess one of the Taliban fighters wanted to make one last phone call.