{"id":1478,"date":"2011-06-29T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2011-06-29T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:22:40","slug":"who-really-attacked-the-intercontinental-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Who really attacked the Intercontinental Hotel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Intercontinental hotel in Kabul<\/a> was holding a two day conference to discuss the details of how to withdraw NATO forces from the country.<\/p>\n

Back on June 6th, you may remember that Afghanistan’s leader Hamid Karzai threatened NATO with attacks<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/opinion\/editorial\/article\/543499–karzai-s-warning<\/a><\/p>\n

In the past few days, it hit the news that the United States is negotiating the terms of surrender<\/del> withdrawal of NATO forces with Taliban leaders.<\/p>\n

There would not have been a place in all of Afghanistan with a higher level of security than that hotel.<\/p>\n

The hotel was built in 1969 on a hill overlooking Kabul.\u00a0 That was the year Afghanistan was celebrating its 50th anniversary as a country.\u00a0 The Russian invasion was 10 years away in the future – the United States was providing economic aid to the country.\u00a0\u00a0 The hotel accepts payment in US dollars only and is clearly designed to Western sensibilities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not clear who actually owns the hotel, but it isn’t the InterContinental Hotel Group in London.<\/a><\/p>\n

The place caters to Americans, accepts only US dollars, is built like a fort overlooking the town with big open spaces around it and only one road in.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m going to stick my neck out and\u00a0guess the owner is the U.S. Government.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are\u00a0somewhere around 10\u00a0hotels in Kabul, not exactly a hotbed of tourism.\u00a0\u00a0 All of our contract workers doing intelligence work have to be living somewhere.<\/p>\n

So with a fortress and a high profile meeting in progress, an attack of this scope had to be done with the cooperation of the people doing the security.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CBS<\/a> is asking the same question of whether this attack was done or assisted by the Karzai government.<\/p>\n

Get ready to see\u00a0the pictures soon of the helicopters evacuating the U.S. embassy.\u00a0\u00a0 “The Smart War” – uh-huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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