After Trump Administration Says Terrorism No Longer Top Priority, U.S. Citizens Killed in Kabul

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Multiple U.S. citizens were killed in an apparent terror attack on a Kabul hotel over the weekend, State Department officials said Monday, in an incident that occurred just a day after the Trump administration said terrorism was no longer its top priority when it comes to national security.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack at Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, which killed at least 22 people. Fourteen were foreigners and eight were Afghans. It's not yet clear how many Americans were killed. Newsweek has reached out to the U.S. State Department.

The attack began Saturday and carried on into Sunday, lasting roughly 12 hours. Five gunmen were responsible, according Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid. In 2011, the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, a criminal organization, was responsible for an attack at the same hotel that killed 21 people.

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[Freethinker65]

1. Wait...terrorism is no longer a top priority? Trump eliminated it or reduced it so much???

When did this happen? Evidently I missed it.

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. hey now

many many of us believe terrorism was not a top priority, at least in reality, does not mean I agree with trump admins reasoning though.

[gratuitous]

4. But you can't help wondering (at least I can't)

If the Obama administration had announced on Friday that terrorism had slipped down the priority list and on Saturday the Taliban had blown up a bunch of people including Americans, how that juxtaposition of totally unrelated events would have played out in the national media.

As it is, the lead political/national stories on MSN today are about where Trump's cabinet members went to college and a breathless feature on the photo of Trump sitting at his spotless desk with that dumbass hat perched on his pointy little head.

[Iliyah]

3. Well ya know t-rump, his fucked up adminstration and GOPs

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don't give a shit. They are busy crowing over the reopening of the government in which Dem's has laid a trap for them.

Eww, I totally to the strong sense dislike these motherfuckers.