Shust and Insurgents

I was overly optimistic in the last post.  There was no clearing up at all.  Instead, we have been blanketed by the shust for the past four days.  You can't even seen the little hill behind the presidential palace, which is less than a mile from here.  Even the buildings on the compound are hazy, and people are sneezing and coughing left and right.  Meanwhile, the insurgents keep trying, and are increasingly directing attacks against soft civilian targets.  In the worst attack, they killed several dozen at a clinic in Logar, the province just to the south of Kabul.  Last night, they tried to stage a Mumbai-style attack against a hotel in Kabul.  We have nine days to go.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/28/afghanistan-kabul-hotel-attack-taliban