Serena Hotel, Kabul. The trip over was pretty rough but I feel okay
at the moment. It's going to catch up with me today, though. I slept
barely at all on the IAD-DXB leg, had a relatively pleasant 12 hours in
DXB (there's a gym! that you can use! and showers!), and then slept not a
wink on the DXB-KBL flight. But everything since we disembarked has
been smooth and now I'm in my non-street-facing room, about to take a
nap for a bit.
Apparently there was an attack yesterday near NATO HQ (the US embassy compound is nearby but was evidently not the target of the attack). No one seems much fazed here but we'll see what happens later today. It's really shitty, the kid who carried it out was 14 years old and, of course, all the casualties were civilians.
Today is the 11th anniversary of the death by suicide-bomb-hidden-in-TV-camera of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the hero of the Northern Alliance and something like a patron saint to the police and military here. No idea how he's perceived down south but in the capital and parts north his face is almost as ubiquitous as Karzai's. The Lion of the Panjshir.
More later, too tired now and need to close my eyes.
Apparently there was an attack yesterday near NATO HQ (the US embassy compound is nearby but was evidently not the target of the attack). No one seems much fazed here but we'll see what happens later today. It's really shitty, the kid who carried it out was 14 years old and, of course, all the casualties were civilians.
Today is the 11th anniversary of the death by suicide-bomb-hidden-in-TV-camera of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the hero of the Northern Alliance and something like a patron saint to the police and military here. No idea how he's perceived down south but in the capital and parts north his face is almost as ubiquitous as Karzai's. The Lion of the Panjshir.
More later, too tired now and need to close my eyes.
1 comment:
Thinking of you, Luke. Hope you fare OK with jetlag, work, security, etc. Also, try to avoid the GI mishap of your last trip!
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