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Taliban attack UN compound in Kabul
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 25 - 05 - 2013

KABUL — Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a UN compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday setting off explosions and battling the security forces.
A plume of smoke hung over the city center after the attack was launched, eight days after six Americans, soldiers and civilians, and nine Afghans were killed in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.
The Taliban, fighting to expel Western forces and establish Islamist rule, claimed responsibility, saying a compound used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had been attacked.
Concern is mounting about how the 352,000 members of the Afghan security forces will cope with the militants after most foreign NATO-led combat troops leave by the end of next year.
Kabul police chief Ayoub Salangi said four attackers had entered a UN compound.
“Our security forces have already killed two of them and two are still on the second floor and fighting with Afghan security forces,” Salangi said.
A spokesman for International Organization for Migration spokesman Chris Lom told The Associated Press in Geneva that four of its staff were injured in an attack with one being seriously burned by a grenade thrown into the compound by the attackers. He did not know her nationality.
There were at least four large blasts and exchanges of fire were going on between the attackers and Afghan forces, supported by Norwegian special forces, at 6.20 p.m. (1350 GMT), witness said.
The first blast was a suicide car-bomb blast at about 4 p.m. (1130 GMT) near a main intersection, said Kabul police chief spokesman Hashmatullah Stanikzai.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, speaking to Reuters by telephone, claimed responsibility.
He said the fighters were targeting a compound used “mostly by members of the CIA,” adding that they had gained access to the compound after the first bomb.
The Taliban routinely overstate the results of their attacks.
Shooting erupted after the first bomb, with more blasts beginning about 30 minutes later.
Insurgent attacks against civilians, government workers and Afghan security forces have increased in recent weeks as the Taliban, toppled by a US-led force in 2001, exert increasing pressure on the Afghan government.
Fifteen people, including six Americans, were killed on May 16 in a suicide bombing by the Hezb-i Islami insurgent group, which is allied with the Taliban. — Agencies


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