by Chris Bodenner
Carl Prine worries that last week's raid on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul could become it:
The results from the most recent Kabul raid are more modest, at least to U.S. audiences and that’s largely because Americans aren’t demanding a lot of stories out of Afghanistan. But if the Haqqani Network’s cells continue to pull off daring low-risk, high-reward propaganda of the deed events before a global media, they shall in a sense win strategically their own “Tet,” even if they’re losing every tactical engagement. They might even draw rivals to trump them, such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e Islami and Mullah Omar’s Quetta Shura, militias that also want a piece of Kabul. If they all get into the televised terror game, will each raid becomed more dramatic to out do the others and capture media attention?
(Photo: Smoke and flames light up the night from a blaze at the Intercontinental hotel after an attack on the hotel by Taliban fighters and a response by Afghan security forces backed by NATO helicopters in Kabul on June 29, 2011. Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the hotel – popular with foreigners and Afghan officials – sparking a five-hour assault that left several casualties and part of the building in flames. NATO helicopters were called in to help crush the brazen attack, which officials said ended in the early hours of on June 29 with six would-be suicide bombers killed by security forces. By Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)
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