{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Ambassador Crocker Hides From Taliban, Ignores Dead Children","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article81092.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article81092.html'\u003EAmbassador Crocker Hides From Taliban, Ignores Dead Children\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dramatic September 13, 2011, Taliban attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul could have been turned into a diplomatic coup by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, but instead the world saw a scared group of American diplomats huddled in bomb shelters for 20 hours.  That forced NATO\u2019s top military official in Afghanistan, General John R. Allen, to publicly announce that the Taliban had scored a \u201cpropaganda victory.\u201d  If Crocker had instead seized upon this opportunity and had his Embassy conduct (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}