"This is an assignment like no other," said Limbert. He was one of 52 Americans who survived the 444-day hostage ordeal in Tehran, where "we moved around freely until the day it all happened. We didn't face conditions like that."
Even Soviet diplomats in Afghanistan during the 1980s had greater mobility, said Moscow's current ambassador in Kabul, Zamir Kabulov. A junior officer at the time, Kabulov reminisced about those years, when the Soviet occupation was the target of Afghan militants, including a young Saudi commander named Osama bin Laden.
"There was no danger of terrorism in the streets of Kabul then," Kabulov said in a telephone interview with The Times. "A random artillery explosion, yes, but no blown-up cars, no suicide bombings, no ambushes, no kidnappings."
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