27 Afghans Dead - 'No Big Deal' Says US Ambassador

United States ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said on Wednesday that his embassy was hit with six rockets in a Taliban attack, but played down the insurgents’ raid as “not a very big deal”. His estimate of the number of rocket hits is at odds with every other local report which talk of double that number. The attack launched yesterday lasted for 19 hours and left 27 people, including the attackers, dead in a barrage of gunfire and suicide blasts targeting the US embassy and the neighbouring headquarters of Nato-led troops in Afghanistan. His official had earlier that injuries there were limited to three Afghan visa applicants and one Afghan security guard.
“This really is not a very big deal, a hard day for the embassy and my staff who behaved with enormous courage and dedication,” he said in a pooled media interview.“Half a dozen RPG rounds from 800 metres away — that isn’t Tet (a key offensive in the Vietnam war), that’s harassment.” Kabul shopkeeper Mohammad Bashir Suleiman Khil summed up the thoughts of many, as reported on Reuters. "Every 10 days there are attacks in Kabul," he said. "There is no work, there is no business. People are not coming out of their homes today. We don't have any hope here." 27 dead Afghans in their own country. 'No big deal'. There is your defeat right there, Obama(O brought Crocker out of retirement for the job).