How bad is it in Kabul?

[kansasblue]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5028416.stm

and some reports say US troops opened fire on the crowd. Other reports say Afghan security forces opened the fire.


The US military said there were "indications" that at least one of the vehicles in the convoy "fired warning shots over the crowd".


From Dailykos
I'm not sure what the US traditional news is reporting within the US on the riot in Afghanistan other than its cause was a traffic accident when a US vehicle lost its brakes. Over here we are getting more news.
After the accident, (According to Al Jazeera)US soldiers opened fire into the crowd killing at least 5 people and injuring 60 others.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/29/115926/261

[spindrifter]

1. It's off the CNN page, but MSNBC has coverage:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13027759/

Today is kind of an overload day--the journalists who died in Iraq, the Indonesian quake, the Memorial Day coverage, but we are getting news of Kabul. I don't know how close they really are to saying the country could go into a civil war--which is apparent from the BBC analysis.

[datasuspect]

2. it's not as bad as the left wing media portrays it

in fact, a tour operator is offering "freedom tours" of the green zone in that city.

sarcasm

[NYC]

3. Stewart Nusbaumer report:

More sparked this violent riot, however, than just the growing negative perception of US troops. Afghans are losing faith that the West will make their lives better. Many of them complain that Kabul is a "toilet." The city has foul open severs, poverty remains gross and shocking, unemployment is sky-high with at least half of working-age adults unable to find a real job, and supposedly 40 percent of the people don't even have enough food. So after four and a half years, many feel their lives are not improving, and they are losing hope that they will improve. That can become a dangerous spark.

With Kabul in lockdown and sporadic gunfire still echoing through the city, the perception that the US military is the problem and not the solution will certainly grow. But, if the reconstruction of Afghanistan does not deliver tangible results to many more of its desperate citizens, there is going to be more gunfire echoing through Kabul.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052906Y.shtml

[Disturbed]

4. Afghanistan is another Neo Fascist Failure.

Instead of US Troops going after al Q themselves the Busholini Regime farmed the task out to the Northern Alliance who allowed a lot of al Q to escape. By making war on the Taliban and spending a lot of money on that the US has once again screwed up. That money could have been used to actually help the Afghanis and perhaps they would have rejected the Taliban Regime through persuasion and re-construction. Now the Taliban are making a comeback because the Afghanis view the US presence as an Occupation that is keeping them improvished. There is no actual Democracy in Afghanistan. It is a sham and most of the people there know it.