Rubiconic Crossings
29-05-2006, 13:17
Just saw this on the news...been monitorig the story since it broke a couple of hours ago...the riot has made its way to the US Embassy...
Bad bad driving....I saw the tv pics of the modified hummers...the civvy cars .... dwarfed...
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=SP217599
Afghan protesters gather outside US embassy in Kabul
Mon 29 May 2006 5:54 AM ET
KABUL, May 29 (Reuters) - Several dozen Afghan protesters forced their way past a police cordon guarding the road to the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Kabul on Monday and threw stones at vehicles carrying foreigners, a Reuters journalist said.
Police had been holding back several hundred demonstrators at the main intersection leading to the embassy as unrest grew in the city after a U.S. military convoy was involved in a fatal traffic accident earlier in the day and several people were killed in shooting to quell a subsequent riot.
"Embassy staff have been moved to a secure location. It is a regular procedure during any unrest in the city," U.S. embassy spokesman Chris Harris told Reuters. Harris said he did not have any information on the firing outside the U.S. mission.
Bad bad driving....I saw the tv pics of the modified hummers...the civvy cars .... dwarfed...
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=SP217599
Afghan protesters gather outside US embassy in Kabul
Mon 29 May 2006 5:54 AM ET
KABUL, May 29 (Reuters) - Several dozen Afghan protesters forced their way past a police cordon guarding the road to the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Kabul on Monday and threw stones at vehicles carrying foreigners, a Reuters journalist said.
Police had been holding back several hundred demonstrators at the main intersection leading to the embassy as unrest grew in the city after a U.S. military convoy was involved in a fatal traffic accident earlier in the day and several people were killed in shooting to quell a subsequent riot.
"Embassy staff have been moved to a secure location. It is a regular procedure during any unrest in the city," U.S. embassy spokesman Chris Harris told Reuters. Harris said he did not have any information on the firing outside the U.S. mission.