American University of Afghanistan no stranger to threats

August 24, 2016 22:26

ABC News reports: The American University of Afghanistan opened in 2006, and was a pet project of former first lady Laura Bush, who helped launch the institution on a 2005 visit to Kabul, the capital.

Much of its funding has come from the US Agency for International Development, which administers civilian foreign aid, and today has more than 1,700 full- and part-time students. It has produced 29 Fulbright Scholars and maintains partnerships with many US colleges, such as Stanford, Georgetown and the University of California network.

But the university has been no stranger to threats of violence since its creation.

Two professors at the university -- one American and one Australian -- were abducted at gun point outside the university campus earlier this month, underscoring the deteriorating security situation in the capital and across the country more generally.

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