Intercontinental Kabul
The Intercontinental Kabul is a hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul . The six-story hotel, which is mainly booked by western guests, is one of the largest in the country and employed around 300 people in 2018. Due to terrorist attacks on guests, it was the focus of media reports several times in the past.
The Intercontinental Kabul was developed in the 1960s by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) as an international luxury hotel . The construction was carried out from April 1967 by the British construction company Taylor Woodrow (today: Taylor Wimpey ) and completed in 1969. The inauguration was carried out on September 9, 1969 by the last king of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah . In the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan , the hotel was ultimately nationalized under protest from the original owner, IHG.
On June 28, 2011, the Taliban launched the first major terrorist attack on the hotel and its guests. Seven attackers entered the hotel grounds and killed at least 11 guests using firearms and grenades. A similar attack in 2018 left at least 42 people dead. In 2018, the hotel entrance was secured by several checkpoints and around 140 security guards.
The Intercontinental Kabul has nothing in common with the former hotel owner IHG; the hotel is now state-owned.
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- ↑ CNN: Attack on hotel in Kabul ends with deaths of 7 Taliban, 11 others , accessed April 17, 2019
- ↑ Haaretz: Suicide Bombers Attack Top Hotel in Afghan Capital , accessed April 17, 2019
- ↑ NY Times: After Kabul Hotel Attack, Security Plan Queried as Death Toll Rises , accessed April 17, 2019
- ↑ FAZ: More than twenty dead in an attack on a luxury hotel , accessed on April 17, 2019
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Taliban confess to fatal attack , accessed on April 17, 2019
- ↑ Spiegel: Where the suites have steel doors , accessed on April 17, 2019