Author Archives: Miles Amoore
Police guard ‘aided terror attack on Kabul hotel’
The Sunday Times The terrorists who launched a commando assault on one of Kabul’s leading hotels received help from three insiders, including a police officer, according to the man who planned the attack. Eight suicide bombers armed with rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machineguns, assault rifles, grenade launchers and suicide vests stormed the InterContinental Hotel on the […]
CIA links add to riddle over killing of ‘King of Kandahar’
The Sunday Times Ahmad Wali Karzai, the half-brother of the Afghan president, lived under constant fear of assassination. His death last week was the latest of 10 attempts to kill him. “The seventh bomb to target me was so big that hundreds of cats fed on human flesh for days afterwards,” he told me last […]
Mahmoud Karzai: ‘We are under siege’
Gunmen wearing suicide vests shot dead a presidential advisor and an Afghan politician at a house in Kabul last night. The two gunmen stormed into the house of the former governor of Uruzgan, Jan Mohammed Khan, at 8pm on Sunday night as both men were sitting down to dinner. The attackers shot and killed the […]
‘Without us cajoling, pushing or pleading, the Afghan army would sit on their arse and do fuck all’
The Sunday Times The bullet tore into the British sniper’s hip and knocked him to the ground. Surrounded by Taliban fighters after being pinned down by heavy fire inside a mud compound for seven hours, British soldiers suffering from heat exhaustion dragged the wounded corporal from the rooftop and into an inner courtyard. They bent […]
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