Hi all,
An hour ago I was rescued from the basement of the Serena Hotel in Kabul by ISAF forces. I'm a member of the gym there and had gone to work out. I'd just gone into the reception area to ask for an internet access card when several blasts shook the building and I and the only other person in the reception, a woman from the Philippines who worked in the hotel spa, heard gunfire and grenades. A young man who also works for the hotel ran in screaming that there was someone shooting people in the hotel lobby. He ran into a back room and I ducked behind a desk as the sounds got louder, and the shooting more rapid. I peered out from the side of the desk as a man, dressed as a member of the Afghan security forces with a long beard came from the men's locker area, firing an AK-47. He turned his head, saw me crouched behind the desk, looked directly at me and then fired into the chest of the other woman. She fell to the ground and he ran out, stepping over her body. As I sit here now, I still don't know why he didn't shoot me. I heard more gunshots and someone screaming in agony as he ran down the hall.
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