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NBC's coverage of Afghanistan turned to Kabul, after Wednesday's attack on a downtown guesthouse used by United Nations election monitors. Richard Engel generalized that "for years we have been able to operate as if the war was outside the city and now it has clearly come into the city." It is not only the guerrillas that are switching from rural to urban warfare, Engel pointed out, the US military has made that change too: "The strategy is not to worry about the remote valleys where very few people live" and to focus instead on population centers.
Anchor Brian Williams was given a guided tour of the burned out guesthouse by Christopher Turner, a contractor from Missouri who operates supply convoys for the US military. Turner showed the charred remains of his possessions--"Yes, everything was toast"--and the maids' quarters were he hid, armed with his AK-47. Williams asked Turner for a status report on the war: "It has deteriorated extremely in the last six months…I think we have lost the hearts and minds of the people. I think they have turned against us. I think our task here is very, very difficult, if at all possible."
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