From Arafat to Afghanistan

Glenn Reynolds got a note from blogcorrespondent Bill Roggio arriving in Afghanistan with a some interesting observations about those riots in Kabul after a military vehicle had brake trouble and slammed into local traffic, killing a few natives…

The good news is I’ve safely landed in Kabul. The somewhat bad news is the UN flight to Kandahar is booked, so I will head down there on Monday. But there is plenty to do in Kabul, and I’ve already dug around a little bit about the violence in the city yesterday after a US vehicle killed 1 to 3 Afghans during a traffic accident. The consensus among the folks I spoke to is the protests after the accident were staged by groups waiting for such an event to happen. I made the comparison to the reaction by some Islamist groups in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) after the Muhammad Cartoon riots, where the “spontaneous protests” were anything but. there was agreement on this point. I will likely post about this tonight or tomorrow.

Planning violent riots just waiting for an excuse to launch them? Who’d have thunk up such a thing?

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I'm a thirty-something dataschmuck in Houston, TX. I spend my free time grilling, baking, playing with cats, and trying to invent the Tequila Sunset.
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  2. Sabba Hillel says:

    I wonder if any of the victims of the accident were pushed in front of the truck in order to trigger the riots.

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