For weeks, every security person I spoke with told me the same thing – the violence in Afghanistan is going to get worse as the election inches closer and Kabul won’t be spared.

Well  today they were right! And I had a front row seat.

Around 4am, just as the call to prayer was echoing across the city, I woke up to a loud boom. It’s not the first loud noise I’ve heard during the middle of the night but I immediately heard  another blast a few minutes later and knew this wasn’t a gate closing or an echo of a tray being dropped in a court yard. A few minutes later, I heard 6 or so gun shots.

According to various reports, the Taliban fired at least 9 rockets in the area near the US/ Canadian/British embassies. I live about 5 minutes from the US embassy in a generally safe area of Kabul but because of its proximity to the embassies – it’s also a target area.

The interesting thing about today’s attack is that people several miles away from the hit zones heard the explosions – which is pretty amazing considering the one impact I saw was only three feet across and six inches deep – not a massive hole.

Fortunately, no one was killed in today’s attack but the scary aspect is that the Taliban were able to fire off 9 rockets during a 90minute period. I generally think the security services in Kabul are OK, but today doesn’t say much about their rapid response.

Lets hope they can re-group going forward.