{"id":17381,"date":"2010-01-19T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_taliban_attacks_heart_of_afghan_capital\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:06:33","slug":"la_times_taliban_attacks_heart_of_afghan_capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17381","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Taliban attacks heart of Afghan capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban militants unleashed a carefully coordinated, deadly attack on the heart of Afghanistan&#8217;s capital and its U.S.-backed government&#8230;[yesterday], killing five people and injuring more than 70 in an attack that illustrated the insurgency&#8217;s ability to strike at will at virtually any target.<\/p>\n<p>The five-hour assualt, carried out by seven Taliban insurgents wielding AK-47 rifles, grenades, rocket launchers and suicide bomb vests, plunged downtown Kabul on a bustling workday morning into a state of war. Afghans shopping or heading to work screamed as they darted for cover while bursts of gunfire rang out overhead and explosions shook the downtown area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-fg-afghan-attack19-2010jan19,0,1610906.story\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban militants unleashed a carefully coordinated, deadly attack on the heart of Afghanistan&#8217;s capital and its U.S.-backed government&#8230;[yesterday], killing five people and injuring more than 70 in an attack that illustrated the insurgency&#8217;s ability to strike at will at virtually<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17381\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}