Kabul – Midnight Rocket Attack

The target was US Embassy

“Blaaaaarrrrrrr!!!”
I heard a blast, quite shocking, when chatting with a friend. This friend is an Afghan journalist based in Wazir Akbar Khan area, about 2 km from my place, and heard the same strange sound.

“Did you hear the sound? What is that?” he messaged me on my chat messenger.
“Maybe it is a rocket,” he answered his own question, and disappeared immediately.
It was 11.00 p.m.
I was thinking it was a bomb blast, but who will blast a bomb at the middle of the night, and if it was indeed a bomb why it could be heard so loud both from Wazir Akbar Khan and from my place, which are separated by 2 km of distance. My friend was probably right: it was a rocket.

I talked with a Pakistani colleague, Mr. Mudasser, about the sound. He didn’t hear anything. But when I said it might be a rocket, he just showed a very normal expression, “Well, in this kind of country, this is not something extraordinary. People are get used.”

The second day (today) I just get it confirmed. Yes, it was a rocket attack in the vicinity of the US embassy, with a possible impact point near Wazir Akbar hill. There was no casualty reported. Indonesian embassy friend said that Americans were all miraculous and magical, as almost all attacks towards them killed none of their citizens. The worst attack just killed their Nepali Ghurka soldiers.

This, for sure, is not a headline in local media. Rocket attack is not something “wow”, especially this didn’t kill none of the foreigners.