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More than 400 Taliban fighters are released. It has created strong reactions.
Taliban fighter Muhammed Ramadan was 22 years old when he dressed in the uniform of the Afghan police and started shooting at people at the Serena Hotel in Kabul. Among those he killed was the Norwegian journalist Carsten Thomassen. Still image of the surveillance video at the Hotel Serena
Kabul, Jan 14, 2008: The explosion was so powerful that parts of the plaster were thrown from the walls of the luxury hotel in the Afghan capital. One of the two Taliban terrorists had just blown himself up outside the hotel. Inside, the other 22-year-old Muhammed Ramadan was still at large.
In reality, the hotel was supposed to be a safe place for the visiting Norwegian delegation, led by then-Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
Instead, it became a death trap.
Carsten Thomassen, 38, an experienced and highly respected foreign correspondent, was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ramadan shot him in the hallway by the lobby and left him there with serious injuries.
Colleagues from other Norwegian newsrooms used, among other things, the empty magazine of Ramadan’s automatic weapon as an aid in an attempt to stop the bleeding. But his life could not be saved. Thomassen died a few hours later at a nearby field hospital.
Sentenced to death – was imprisoned
That day, the Taliban killed six people in Serena. Six others, including Norwegian Foreign Ministry employee Bjørn Svenungsen, were injured. Muhammed Ramadan, the terrorist who shot Thomassen and Svenungsen, was captured alive and later sentenced to death.
But the verdict was never carried out. Ramadan was imprisoned.
Until now.
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