Posted on 09/25/2011 11:57:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gunfire, Possible Explosion at Kabul Building Believed to House CIA
Gunfire and a possible explosion Sunday night rattled the building believed to house the CIA office in Kabul.
It wasn’t clear if the incident took place inside the building or just outside the entrance.
At least one helicopter has landed outside the building, according to local journalists.
The building is in the single most secure part of Kabul and used to be known as the Arianna Hotel until 2002, when it was believed to have been taken over by the CIA. It is just a few feet from one of the entrances to the Presidential Palace, and between two NATO military bases, as well as down the road from the U.S. embassy.
The attack appears to be the third major incident in Kabul in as many weeks — the most violent stretch in the capital in two years. Before the attack began, a U.S. official said an assault two weeks ago on the U.S. embassy and NATO base was likely the “beginning of a trend” of attacks on U.S. installations in Kabul.
The incident began at approximately 8 p.m. local time, when people inside the NATO military headquarters and the U.S. embassy both reported hearing gunshots. The embassy staff was briefly locked down, according to a U.S. official.
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Isn't that a bit like "the clean side of the dung heap" ?
OBAMAS war there is going well i see...
In Vietnam, the S. Korean troops assigned there
never allowed any Vietnamese workers inside their bases.
Result: the Viet Cong never successfully got inside
a S. Korean base.
(contrast this with the number of times the Viet Cong
attacked US bases from the inside).
NOFORN should be the RULE at all secret and high priority US installations.
yes, 0bama is losing Afghanistan.
Let me guess, they killed 10 of our agents and nothing will happen. We will be ok with it. It will be buried.
Let me guess, they killed 10 of our agents and nothing will happen. We will be ok with it. It will be buried.
And ISI is behind it.
” Let me guess, they killed 10 of our agents and nothing will happen. We will be ok with it. It will be buried. “
Yeah - especially if the DOJ smuggled the weapons to the Taliban...
Of course it will be buried or spun. Can’t have obamao looking bad.
the queer DOD’s ROE at work
“KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital.
Afghan authorities said gunfire was heard in the evening near the Ariana Hotel, a building that former U.S. intelligence officials said was the CIA station in Kabul. The CIA occupied the heavily secured building just blocks from the Afghan presidential palace in late 2001 after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban.
There was no immediate word on casualties.
A U.S. official confirmed there was an attack on a facility used by American officials in Kabul...
AP
Well, talk about major OPSEC violation, they would have to move from there for sure now. Cripes.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
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