Ever since the Taliban in Afghanistan announced a new offensive season after the United States considered strengthening troop levels a few months ago, Nepali security guards were worried by intelligence reports that they were ‘soft targets’, Afghanistan returnees said on Wednesday. “Three days before Monday’s devastating Taliban attack, the Canadian embassy had prior information via national security forces intelligence but its Nepali security guards were kept in the dark,” claims Sup Bahadur Tamang, 33, of Kalyanpur-2, Nuwakot distirct. Tamang, who has served as a security guard in Kabul for more than five years, was airlifted to Kathmandu along with 23 other security guards and 12 bodies of those killed in the suicide bomb attack. Soon after he disembarked from the Nepal Airlines Corporation plane at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Tamang said, “I am thankful to the government for bringing me home safe but I feel worried about those left behind in Afghanistan.”