Like many of the Taliban's high-profile sieges, the Qargha Lake attack played out on TV.Viewers who witnessed it will never forget the images of people clinging to the wall of the Spozhmai restaurant at Qargha lake,as attackers on the terrace above carried out their killing spree.Today, for those living and working in Qargha, life is slowly returning to normal.Most of the Spozhmai restaurant has been reconstructed, but there are still signs of the attackThe floor remains stained from pools of blood. The bullet holes have not yet been repaired.And areas bombed out by the attackers' hand grenades can still be seen.While the restaurant has returned to serving officials and middle-to-upper-class Afghans, the number of guests is down by more than 50 percent.Asadullah is the restaurant's manager."There are two kinds of people,""There are those who have lived through 30 years of war; the attack has not affected these people.But, the other people who have not lived through the war; they are scared.The people who come here, they come for picnics, they are not those people fighting on the front line, it has affected them greatly.Faridoon, the restaurant's accountant says he is used to attacks like the one at Qargha. But, still, he says, his life has been changed forever.
