Kabul, Afghanistan (AP)-on Wednesday the United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the taliban commander admitted for the victory of the propaganda concentrated in the U.S. embassy 20 hours of attack, leave 27 police, civilians and militants died. But he insisted that the attack is in the Afghan capital Kabul sign of vulnerability.
However, one of the complexity and the fierce attacks, militants firing rockets into the American embassy nearby an unfinished high-rise, they may have storage of the heavy weapons, composite, put forward the ahead of the ability of the Afghan people, to ensure that our national fresh doubt as the United States and other foreign troops start evacuating. Afghan troops is nominally since 2008 capital safety control-but it took out the latest attack American and NATO forces in the heavy routing.
In the protection of the capital of the spectacular attack become more common. This week's strike is since the end of June for the third time since the deadly attack in Kabul.
The taliban claimed responsibility for Monday's attack. Kabul metropolitan police deputy commissioner, said, it is possible the karni network in Pakistan, the extremism representative of the organization. The American ambassador Ryan crocker also accused Haqqanis, has become a stable Afghanistan one of the biggest threats, across the border in Pakistan, the tribal areas in the field of security work.
The 20 hours a night, Afghan, U.S. and NATO forces rooting out the six militants holed up in ABuDuLe huck traffic circle of the 12 buildings, impact and attack helicopters 26 police and soldiers work according to the floor of the floor. From their habitat, militants near the U.S. embassy in the nearby NATO compound clear pictures in a shootout, lit up the tracer fire fight night of the Afghan army.
In the 9:00 am 30 points on Wednesday, the Afghan interior ministry announced that the last of the residual molecules were killed. The police could be seen in the roof of the building clap your hands to celebrate their hand, and some of the rough concrete stairs down a flight of six militants dislocation, packed into waiting for organization the back of the ambulance.
11 Afghan civilians died in the battle, more than half are children, along with five Afghan police officer said, the United States Marine corps general John Allen, the U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan commander. In addition to the militants within the building, the other four against coordinated attacks in Kabul as a suicide bomber some aspects of the three police killed-they could detonate the explosives.
Allen said, and there was no attack the influence of business, does not mean that Afghan security forces and didn't do their job, think many more potential attacks have been thwarted. But, he says, it gave the taliban propaganda victory.
"I'll give them not receive a IO (information operations) win," Allen told reporters in the capital. NATO's senior civilian representative, Simon gus, called the attacks "a very terrible, even in the citizens of Kabul."
The two and Ryan crocker, the U.S. ambassador to think, insurgents, because they can't take practical and stand your ground title more and more attacks. Some residents say worry, but in Kabul, shows the effectiveness of the current activity.
36 years of ancient Mr Sadeq, work in a government office, said he doesn't trust the government or security forces, in order to guarantee his safety.
"It is true, security forces can win against, and prevent more casualties, but why can't they maintain they entered the city, and they basically can't stop them, or the insurgents, help them, Sadeq said."
The key problem is how to try to let their heavy weapons, so that the embassy close-into construction, Afghan and U.S. officials have admitted that attack is a potential platform. It may appear, whether weapons of construction in advance or time in advance with guns and ammunition supplies, some militants into already storage.
A team of six police have been accused of guard building-12 layer of concrete structure that looks like a doomed to become office space or a shopping center, but construction has stopped for a period of time. A policeman, who is attack happens, site supervision, Wahidullah ahmed said he did not know, if the guards of any of the victims.
A witness said the attackers equipment heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade and possible mortars. They also boast 82 mm recoiless rifles, a powerful weapon, usually the fire destroying tanks shell is very heavy, the launch of the more anxious to the stairs in building the beating the heat.
By midday Tuesday after the attack began with militants packed with van parked in ABuDuLe huck square, this is about 300 yards (meters) from the American embassy a checkpoint, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.
A series of big bang, at about 1 30 points a near the square began suicide bombings have at least a militants set. Other vehicles driving on the part of the top, they take over.
Explosion of militants near the shock from construction the rocket launch. Six, seven rockets hit the embassy in a fight, and the rocket booster grenade hit four Afghan people injured in the building. No NATO or the U.S. embassy staff were injured.
Watts JiEr AKeBa sweat of residents' committees near, other foreign missions and the barrage of explosion around. NATO and Afghan troops start slowly, moving up the floor in the floor trying to dig deep fighter and a us helicopter provide fire from the head.
The insurgents Toyota minivan with explosives, Hashmat Stanekzai Afghanistan manipulation of the police spokesman said, it may be carrying weapons. In the car, the police found the body and face frock-covered in public many Afghan women wear robes-as diguises may be used to obtain the past police checkpoints, the attackers, he said.
The United States and NATO officials praised routing the enemy's Afghan troops, but international forces played a major role.
AP photo shows the cleaning operation of international forces inside the building, apparently command of the Afghan police and together they will information transfer helicopter overhead.




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