SAS in Kabul. Photo via Stuff.co.nz.
by DAVID AXE
New Zealand Special Forces were apparently in the thick of the fighting in Kabul this weekend. Photographer Phillip Poupin
told The Dominion Post he saw a “tired and sweaty” Corporal [Willie] Apiata emerge from the building [where Taliban were fortified].
“They were going out of the building where the three insurgents were. They walked towards the Presidential Palace, no car, no Humvee,” said Poupin from a hotel room in Kabul. “They were really close to the insurgents … they were there to fight.”
Once the battle subsided, Poupin went inside the building and saw the bodies of three militants. “There were two in one room and one in another. I can’t tell you if [the New Zealanders] were directly fighting with the insurgents … but I could say they were right there.”
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