Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Survives Afghanistan Attack

Massoud Hossaini was in class at Kabul's American University when all Taliban hell broke loose.

MassoudHossainiTwitterIn his Twitter bio, AP photographer Massoud Hossaini wryly states that he was born in the wrong place (Afghanistan), raised in the wrong place (Iran) and lives in the wrong place (Kabul). Today, in Kabul, the very real underpinning of those sentiments came to the fore.

As Hossaini initially revealed via Twitter, he was in class at the American University when a Taliban militant attack against the school was launched. From a just-posted AP report:

“I went to the window to see what was going on, and I saw a person in normal clothes outside.

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