Nowegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre was the likely target for the terrorist attack, according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The militant Islamist group Taliban attacked a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan last night. Seven people, including a U.S. citizen and a journalist from the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet were killed. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre is staying at the hotel, but was unharmed. The terrorists attacked the five-star Serena hotel with AK-47 assault rifles, suicide vests, and grenades. The likely target was Mr. Gahr Støre and a Norwegian delegation, who evacuated into the cellar. U.S. military forced rushed to the scene, and managed to kill at least one of the attackers. White House press secretary Dana Perino described the attackers as “ deliberate, patient people who will murder innocents ” , and said that the attack “ underscores the reason we have to stay on the offense against the extremists in places like Kabul but also in other places around the world. ”
Nowegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre was the likely target for the terrorist attack, according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The militant Islamist group Taliban attacked a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan last night. Seven people, including a U.S. citizen and a journalist from the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet were killed. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs is staying at the hotel, but was unharmed. The terrorists attacked the five-star Serena Hotel with AK-47 assault rifles, suicide vests, and grenades. The likely target was Mr. Gahr Støre and a Norwegian delegation, who evacuated into the cellar. U.S. military forced rushed to the scene, and managed to kill at least one of the attackers. White House press secretary described the attackers as " deliberate, patient people who will murder innocents " , and said that the attack " underscores the reason we have to stay on the offense against the extremists in places like Kabul but also in other places around the world. "
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