At the time of the attack in December, when an insurgent detonated a hidden bomb at a National Directorate of Security guesthouse, Mr. Khalid's very survival, no less his return, was in question.
"I am here in the guesthouse of the Khost police for security reasons," he said.
Mr. Young went on to trade in gems, own a fruit orchard, run a guesthouse and work in Sudan as a security consultant for an oil company.
Fourteen people, including nine foreigners, were killed at the Park Palace hotel in Kabul on May 14, while another attack by gunmen on a guesthouse in the capital was repelled by security forces on May 26.
In a separate development, foreign officials said that amateur video shot during the attack on a United Nations guesthouse here last year seems to show that a security guard at the compound was shot by an Afghan policeman rather than militants.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Most United Nations workers here were confined to their living quarters on Thursday in the aftermath of a deadly assault on a United Nations guesthouse, and some were moved to more secure housing as foreigners working in Kabul reassessed their security.
Guesthouses in Kabul, some of them run by security companies, have periodically been targets for Taliban attackers.
The newspaper said that in the case last August, Ma Wen, minister of supervision, was calling Hu on a high-security land link from the state guesthouse in Chongqing, which was monitored on Bo's orders.
The three guards who were killed worked for Burhan Security Company and guarded the Kabul Compound guesthouse, which is used by American government employees, police officials said.
Just hours earlier, a Taliban suicide bomber had attacked a guesthouse in Kabul's diplomatic neighborhood, killing three private security guards and injuring two civilians, all Afghans.
