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| Afghanistan |
| Kabul standoff continues into night |
| 2011-09-14 |
| [Al Jazeera] Taliban gunnies armed with boom jackets and heavy weaponry have launched co-ordinated attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, targeting NATO's ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... headquarters, the US embassy, and the Afghan intelligence agency. Heavy gunfire continued to be heard late into the night on Tuesday as Afghan forces battled to clear a building in the city's diplomatic quarter which had been taken over by heavily armed fighters. Rockets have reportedly been fired at the US and other embassies in the area. At least four coppers and two civilians have been killed and 18 others injured, according to police and hopsital sources. Police have surrounded the occupied building, calling in air support to end a siege carried out by gunnies resisting inside the building. NATO has confirmed that they are providing Afghan forces ground and air support in the operation. Al Jizz's Abdullah Shahood, reporting from Kabul, said the police had cleared three stories of the building, but the gunfired continued. "As we speak right now, the attack is still ongoing. There are two fighters still in the building and Afghan forces are trying to clear the building," he said. Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , the Afghan president, condemned the attacks and and said it could not not hamper the security transition from NATO to Afghan forces. "The attacks cannot stop the process (transition) from taking place and cannot affect, but rather embolden our people's determination in taking the responsibility for their country's own affairs," Karzai said in a statement. Multiple kabooms Only an hour after the attack near the US embassy, heavy kabooms were heard in other parts of the city. Just a few kilometres away in the west of Kabul, a jacket wallah let 'er rip near a police building, killing one policeman. A second suicide bomber maimed two people when he let 'er rip near Habibia high school also in the west of the city. "The primary targets of the attackers are the intelligence agency building and a ministry," Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban, told the Rooters news agency on Tuesday from The US embassy in Kabul says no personnel have been reported injured. NATO's International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul was also one of the targets in the ongoing Taliban attack in the centre of the city, a Western military source told the AFP new agency . Mohammad Zahir, head of Kabul's Crime Investigation Unit, said: "There has been an kaboom and gunfire, there are several armed attackers in Abdul Haq Square. There could be suicide bombers but it is unclear at the moment." Police and other security officials blocked roads around the US embassy and other diplomatic missions. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 #1 If Bush was still president, they'd be on this like it was the Tet Offensive. Posted by tu3031 And that is precisely why it was orchestrated. Unfortunately, the Taliban have no idea how well Obama is insulated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-09-14 07:44 |
| #2 From The Press Association That Can Not Be Named... The Afghan government says the two-day insurgent assault in the heart of Kabul has ended and all the attackers have been killed. The head of the police unit overseeing the operation says that the last six attackers were killed inside the building at a major traffic circle in the Afghan capital. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-09-14 02:09 |
| #1 If Bush was still president, they'd be on this like it was the Tet Offensive. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-09-14 00:11 |