Night time, Kabul
I'm spending the night at the safe house, and I'm guessing that we'll stay here in the morning until they can figure out if riots are starting up again.
It turns out the Afghan guards at my house (mostly unarmed) were champions, fending off an angry mob and putting out the fire on the generator shed. One sustained minor injuries - in the midst of all this crap I'm deeply touched that they cared enough about our personal property to risk their own skins to protect it. Fortunately, there were more guards than usual at my place. After the angry mob attacked my car and all the shooting outside, my office sent more guards to my house to keep me from freaking out too much.
My adrenaline rush is fading, and all I want to do now is go to bed, even if the bed isn't my own.
posted by Tallinn Jones @ 8:27 AM
2 Comments:
I hear ya, I had a 2 hour gunfight outside my house, with people trying to break down the gate a climb the walls.
Our guards (we have 4) held then off I don't know if they shot anyone as I didn't want to ask.
They hid me in the basement with 3 other westerners and issued guns to everyone inside the walls.
Finally some help arrived and then things died down.
Yikes. Glad you got out okay.
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