13 Americans Said to Be Among Killed in Kabul Attack

The attack on the bus, known as a Rhino because of its heavy armor,

Damn, they took out a RHINO??

VIPs have been known to use the Rhinos, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, General Richard Myers, and Matthew Roloff.

So this is supposed to be quite secure.

Insurgents or partisans? You decide.

reply to post by Jakes51

The Taliban has been given ample opportunity to join the politic process in Afghanistan by the Afghan government and unofficially by the US, but they would rather run and gun in the mountains...

eh....
While I do not approve of the Talibans harsh ways, they were THE government before the US invasion whether we like it or not.
And rightfully so. To give credit where credit is due, the people who became the Taliban were the ones who got Afghanistan out of the sheer chaos in the '90s, reuniting most of Afghanistan and ending most of the corruption and lawlessness that was rampant there.

So the new Afghan government (put in place by the US) offering the Taliban a chance to be a mere part of the political process is probably seen as an insult upon injury by the Taliban.