Afghanistan counts cost of deadliest assault on UN in fifty years
Five United Nations staff were killed by Taliban suicide bombers at a guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday in an attack that prompted a review of the organisation’s presence in Afghanistan.
By Ben Farmer in Kabul
5:10PM GMT 28 Oct 2009
The assault, in which the Taliban fighters disguised as police stormed the guesthouse, was the most serious on the UN during its 50 years of operations in the country. Three local security guards and three Taliban fighters were also killed.
A spokesman for the Taliban said the early-morning raid was the first in a campaign to disrupt the Nov 7 presidential election run-off between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, condemned the assault as “despicable and brutalâ€.
Three attackers wearing suicide vests and carrying rifles and grenades stormed the Bakhtar guesthouse where up to 20 UN international staff were staying overnight.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6454819/Afghanistan-counts-cost-of-deadliest-assault-on-UN-in-fifty-years.html
