In Quiet Kabul Neighborhood, Taliban Attack Began With Mugging At Mosque -- McClatchy News
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attack that paralyzed a key NATO headquarters at Kabul’s international airport early Monday began, as it turns out, with a mugging outside a mosque.
The seven Taliban fighters drove into a residential neighborhood adjacent to the northern, military side of the airport, in a car and a delivery truck, about 4 a.m. Monday. They got out and tried to enter a house but the gate was locked, said a man named Berhannudin, who was walking with a friend to a nearby mosque for morning prayers.
All but one were in the uniform of the Afghan border police, he said, which has its national headquarters nearby.
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My Comment: Why rob a cell phone before a suicide attack? I guess one of the Taliban fighters wanted to make one last phone call.
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