Rocket attack

I don't mean to sound trite, but please continue to pray for my dad. In a later email he said the rocket was actually 13 meters from their facility, and that if it would have happened 1/2 hour earlier their would have been fatalities from their station.

"A rocket apparently aimed at Camp Eggers slammed into a nearby location outside a store 200 meters as the crow flies from our facilities, causing one injury to a store guard but resulting in no other casualties. This was the first rocket I have been close enough to have felt the real dangers of rockets. The concussion was much like a bomb—in fact initially I grabbed the AK-47 and ran out of my room to check on our people—fearing that there might be a coordinated attack underway. The guards met me and asked for Mozhdah—and told her that it was a rocket. I didn’t hear it screaming in—but Fahim heard it from his home (about 700 meters away)—but he knows what they sound like. I heard only the ka-boom. As close as it was, it didn’t cause any glass breakage—so it wasn’t nearly as powerful as the car bomb from before Christmas.

Mozhdah’s response has been very interesting. Because she experienced first-hand many rocket attacks and gunship attacks when she was a small girl (age 5), this didn’t faze her a bit. She said a few minutes ago that she feels much safer here than she did in Vancouver. She said that she has lost several friends to gang-related ancillary violence—friends randomly in the wrong place at the wrong time where her family lives on Main Street near GM Place. She believes it would really be a random, unlikely event for our facility to be struck by a rocket, and I’m sure she’s right.

So when you hear about a rocket explosion in Kabul near Camp Eggers, be at peace—we’re OK."