[marabod]

http://news.bbc.co.u...sia/8343716.stm


UN "relocates" 600 non-Afghani personnel after Taleban storms the Kabul hostel where they were accommodated. Also, UN does not want this relocation to be seen as "evacuation", claiming that these 600 are only 12% of UN personnel in the country; however at close-up it occurs that the total foreign personnel is only 1300, so the "relocated" 600 is actually almost 50%.

Thus, not only Afghanistan in general, but Kabul itself is no longer safe for the incomers! Is not it a deja vue of the Soviet invasion times? Why is that NATO forces cannot make the capital a safe place? 15,000 more US troops? Would they be noticeable?

[marabod]

Please, note - this is the actual compartment attacked!



How can 600 people fit in this hut? And the source says "other organizations" also had the stuff living there! One phrase clears all - it occurs the OTHER towns are also evacuated...

[keithisco]

marabod, on 05 November 2009 - 09:38 AM, said:

Please, note - this is the actual compartment attacked!



How can 600 people fit in this hut? And the source says "other organizations" also had the stuff living there! One phrase clears all - it occurs the OTHER towns are also evacuated...

You didnt read your own source:

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UN to relocate Afghanistan staff

The UN says it will temporarily relocate 600 of its "non-essential" foreign staff in Afghanistan.

The personnel would return to work once security was strengthened at unsecured accommodation used by the UN, it said.......The move follows a dawn raid by the Taliban last week on a hostel in the capital, Kabul, which left five UN workers and three Afghans dead.

The attack on the private Bekhtar guesthouse in the Shar-i-Naw district last Wednesday was the deadliest on the UN in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

On Monday, also citing security concerns, the UN halted long-term development work in north-western Pakistan, a region on the border with Afghanistan that is widely regarded as a haven for Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.

'No evacuation'

The head of the UN's Afghan mission, Kai Eide, said some of the staff - mostly "non-front line" personnel - would be moved within the country, some others outside.

And NO, there were not 600 people living in the hostel that you showed, it was one os SEVERAL hostels used by the UN

It is also very disingenuous to call the topic title

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BBC: UN evacuates from Afghanistan

as it implies that it is the BBC making the claim of evacuation, when patently this is not the case

This post has been edited by keithisco: 05 November 2009 - 09:13 AM

[marabod]

So? Thats what the article effectively says - they are running away from the country because there is no more security! They promise to return? I also was promising to marry at least a dozen times.